IATI: the past, present and future
The International Aid Transparency Initiative, or IATI for short, first saw the light of day during the third High Level Forum of Aid Effectiveness in Accra. This forum took place during a time in which the international aid landscape was in transition. Private foundations, like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation were gaining momentum.
Reporting Back on the IATI Learning Event 2019
We were happy to welcome around 70 national and international participants during the 4th Partos IATI Learning Event, organized by Partos and Data4Development, and financially made possible by The Spindle, Partos Innovation Platform.
Stepping up in your Data Journey
You are always somewhere on the path between data and wisdom. Consciously or subconsciously, as an organisation and as a person, input from your surroundings is continually entered as data, which you either choose to discard, or process into useful information.
Looking back at the first D4D Open Tea of 2019
We look back at a successful first D4D Open Tea of 2019! We would like to thank our host Aidsfonds and our speakers Eva Roos of Aidsfonds, Marieke Meeske of PAX for peace and Renald Buter of Datamission! Of course, we would also like to thank all participants for joining and contributing to the discussions […]
Join the Partos IATI Learning Event 2019 on May 9!
Join us for the annual IATI Learning Event on Thursday the 9th of May! This is the fourth learning event organized by D4D and Partos to provide a platform for organisations to exchange experiences in working with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and to learn more about the latest developments, trends and tools. This […]
Update from the field: Making Hivos Future Proof through implementing a new system
One of the things we love to do when working with non-profits is taking a deep dive into their systems, applications and work processes during an implementation project. Since the summer of 2018, we have been involved with selecting and implementing a new core application at Hivos, and this continues to be a major project for D4D in 2019.
25 April: Come join us for the first D4D Open Tea of 2019!
Come join us for the first Open Tea of 2019! Date & Time: 25 April 2019, 15.00-17.00 Location: Aidsfonds, Keizersgracht 392, 1016 GB Amsterdam (routebeschrijving) Register here Join us to meet up and catch up during the first Data4Development Open Tea of 2019! Meet other data professionals in the development and social impact sector and […]
Data is not all about technology
Learn more about how we combine People, Process and Technology in our work. We as D4D love to talk about data, as our primary mission is to help non-profits to enhance their impact by embedding data-driven decision making at the core of their organization.
Great data quality, great impact
How to improve your organization’s data quality to achieve impact. The impacts of poor data quality have been studied for quite some time. Twenty years ago, in 1998, Redman talked about the consequences of poor (digital) data quality for enterprises.
Check out our IATI Data Quality Feedback platform
Have you heard about the IATI Data Quality Feedback platform yet? This is an online platform that we have developed as Data4Development and is online for some time now! If you want to make sure your organisation publishes IATI data of high quality, this tool can help you with “human-readable” advice on how you can […]