Development Initiatives Poverty Research America Inc

Programs: During 2017, development initiatives poverty research america, inc. Helped development initiatives (di) achieve the following. We have continued to push for better information on people in poverty and crisis to ensure the effective targeting of resources. Di's role with the international aid transparency initiative (iati) continues to strengthen the initiative's ability to publish open data on what it is doing, where and when. Demand for this sort of data will persist and di will continue to support global, regional and national institutions to improve their information and remain open and accountable. We have strengthened our commitment and belief that we must empower national actors to lead their development agendas and will continue to work with civil society in nepal, kenya and uganda and beyond to improve access and use of data for decision-making and accountability. Di contributed data informed analysis to several policy discussions and helped shape their direction. Some key things stand out in 2017. 1) di launched a baseline report to better understand where the poorest 20% of people were in 2017 so that we could annually assess their progress against three lead indicators: how is their income increasing, are they better fed, and are the births of their children being registered. 2) we launched country spotlights in kenya and uganda. These are online tools to make national and local level country data easy to access and use as well as publish analysis on how pro-poor the national budget is and how spending could be improved to be more responsive to tackling poverty in the country. 3) we enhanced understanding of public-private finance in the mix of all resources allowing us to contribute to work led by the organisation for economic co-operation and development's development assistance committee (oecd dac) to improve transparency and accountability in the area of blended finance where public resources are being used to leverage more private resources to achieve development outcomes. 4) we also worked hard to establish the importance of interoperability on the global agenda so that data sets can be used together to fill gaps in our knowledge on poverty and resources. 5) di continues to be a strong contributor to the humanitarian community working with it to achieve the grand bargain commitment on transparency and continue to provide annual information on financing to inform decision-makers at the global level.