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Private donors increase humanitarian funding for fourth consecutive year but pace of growth slows
New analysis published today by Development Initiatives (DI) shows that although 2016 saw a fourth successive increase in private donations of international humanitarian assistance, the rate of growth slowed significantly.
New analysis reveals significant slowdown in growth of international humanitarian assistance despite high need
New analysis by Development Initiatives shows that while total international humanitarian assistance increased again in 2016, the pace of growth has slowed.
A new home for Development Initiatives’ work on humanitarian financing
Our humanitarian financing work provides independent analysis for evidence-based decision-making and improved accountability in humanitarian contexts.
Latest data now available on DI’s Development Data Hub
The Development Data Hub is an open platform for sharing development and humanitarian data. The hub offers both broad and detailed humanitarian data.
Development Initiatives announced as new host for the 2017 Global Nutrition Report
Development Initiatives (DI) will run the Global Nutrition Report for the next three years. DI was chosen by the Global Nutrition Report Stakeholder Group.
Data to leave no one behind: Development Initiatives launches inaugural P20 Initiative baseline report
DI's P20 Initiative seeks to track the progress of the poorest 20% of people globally through income, nutrition and civil registration indicators.
New year, new DI: our new brand
As we begin a new year, we are launching our new brand. We have a new logo and we’ve changed our look to better reflect how we work and the values we hold.
500 organisations publishing data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard
Since the UK’s Department for International Development became IATI’s first publisher in January 2011, billions of dollars of development spending has been published to the IATI Standard by a multi-stakeholder community of bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, foundations, private sector organisations and development finance institutions.
Focus on transparency in UK government’s development spending reviews welcomed by Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund
DFID has been a leading player in global efforts to improve transparency for many years and in these latest reviews we see an even more ambitious transparency agenda.