Development Gateway
For The Promotion Of Feminist Open Government And Open Data
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/23/2018
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This grant to Development Gateway is to support Open Heroines, an online global community of women who work on open government, open data, and civic technology. Open Heroines will provide support for women, especially from countries that are historically underrepresented in global fora, to attend different "open"-related conferences. During these events, Open Heroines will organize various "do-a-thons" during which people with different skill sets collaborate on open data projects to apply a gender lens. Open Heroines will gather information and carry out a mapping exercise to identify and better understand the barriers and challenges that women face in their career path in open government, open data, and/or civic technology.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.developmentgateway.org
Address
1100 13th Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC, 20005, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for education data-driven decision mapping research in East and West Africa
Development Gateway: an IREX Venture (DG) is an international nonprofit organization with team members in more than 10 countries worldwide. DG conducts research on data ecosystems, builds digital tools to support those ecosystems, improves data interoperability and analytics, and advises on data strategy and digital transformation to strengthen decision making, transparency, and service delivery. IREX is a global development and education organization dedicated to building a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world by empowering youth, cultivating leaders, strengthening institutions, and extending access to quality education and information. Through this grant, DG, together with education sector experts from IREX, will map the education data and decision ecosystems in Kenya and Senegal, focusing on primary and secondary education, to more holistically understand the barriers to more effective data sharing, interoperability, and ultimate use. By understanding the barriers to data use, this program will allow for more targeted interventions for creating robust education data ecosystems for better learning outcomes. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for a program to expand subnational use of open contracting data and analytics tools
Development Gateway promotes transparency and citizen participation in public resource management through the use of technology and capacity building. In each partner country, Development Gateway works closely with governments to build and use technology tools for open publication of data on government transactions, including contracting, procurement, and public service provision. Development Gateway also builds the capacity of civil society and watchdog groups to access and use this data for monitoring and oversight. This grant will enable Development Gateway to work with two county governments in Kenya to enhance public disclosure of contracting and procurement data, and promote use of this data by civil society and watchdog groups for monitoring and oversight.
