Closing the IATI loop for increased transparency

  More resources and funding is going to the Global South than ever before. Funders like the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and FCOO (previously DfiD) have agreed that, for increased transparency, publishing to IATI is part of the contractual obligation when receiving funding. Many more donors are supporting the IATI initiative. But if you […]

Welcoming new types of publishers

In addition to the fact that more NGOs are becoming publishers, we see a growing number of Private Sector Companies who are now publishing in IATI. We have recently started supporting one of them, the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), who is an innovative infrastructure development and finance organisation delivering pioneering infrastructure in the poorest […]

Transparency further down the aid chain

As we wrote previously, IATI is rapidly scaling up! In recent years the initiative has grown from around 380 publishers at the start of 2016 to 1200 as of August 2020, with over 100 new publishers joining in the last half year alone. This is a great development and shows the value of IATI as […]

DRA Alliance Dashboard Development: How we work agile

Over the last few months Data4Development has worked extensively to improve selected functionality of the current Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) dashboard. D4D continues to host the dashboard on its own Data Workbench platform with periodical updates. We worked in an agile way tackling one issue after another to improve the dashboard. In the first sprint, […]

Project Change! Migration complete

Can we have a single source of truth and find a way to synchronize the worlds of Finance and Project Management? This was the core question we have helped solve at Hivos. The Hivos ‘Project Change!’ involves implementation and data migration from an end of life ERP solution to a new cloud solution that combined […]

Current and previous customers about our added value for your Strategic Partnership

For the past months we have been saying we would like to be your innovation partner to think alongside you and add value to your Strategic Partnership proposal in terms of digital innovation, data drivenness and increased transparency. Today we want to give the floor to current and previous customers, whom we’ve worked with on […]

Reflections on my time at Data4Development

In the fall of 2018, the same week when I had received my MSc in International Development, I had an interview with Maaike and Gyan in The Hague. The conversation was great and I remember talking about my interests in Open Data and Open access to knowledge; as I truly believe this is vital to […]

Will we lose DFID as a frontrunner on international aid transparency?

Though it might not have come as a complete surprise, the decision to merge the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is worrying from an aid transparency perspective [1, 2]. DFID has been a champion of the International Aid Transparency Initiative since its early days, being the first […]

How many organizations are mentioned in the IATI data? Part 3/3

In Part 1 of this mini series we tried to get an idea of the number of organizations by simply counting the number of unique names, mentioned in organization fields in the IATI data. From a preliminary analysis of the 92k unique “organizations” we could identify several obstacles, of which the two main problems appear […]