Resources
Filter and search DI's published resources below. Or visit our Blog page for opinion, insight and comment, or see our Data page for tools and datasets.
Reaching the potential of IATI data
This report seeks to bring together the available evidence on existing use cases for IATI data, analyzing which barriers should be tackled to grow IATI use.
An introduction to IATI for humanitarian actors
This background paper introduces humanitarian actors to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard, focusing on how and why IATI is used.
Approaches to measuring and monitoring South-South cooperation
This paper documents the ways in which South–South cooperation providers are responding to growing demands for more transparency.
Counting cash: Tracking humanitarian expenditure on cash-based programming
This report, commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute, includes data on the volume and nature of humanitarian cash-based programming in 2015.
Assessment of Kenya's preparedness to disasters caused by natural hazards: floods, drought and disease outbreak
Through key informant interviews, focus-group discussions, literature review and a financial analysis, this report evaluates Kenya's resilience.
Long-term investments in a short-term world: Arguments for sustainable data
This discussion paper makes the case for the acceptance of key issues that are paramount in the struggle for sustainable development data
Common cause, common language: harmonising key concepts in the Data Revolution
One of the great opportunities at the World Data Forum is the strengthening of relationships between official and 'non-official' data communities.
Final ODA data for 2015
This report presents Development Initiatives’ initial analysis of ODA, including comparison to preliminary ODA data, regional distribution of ODA and more.
Using joined-up datasets to improve the targeting of health and nutrition funding in Nepal
Raj Kumar Mahato is partnering with Nepal's Ministry of Health to target those overlooked by national Millennium Development Goal (MDG) aggregates.