College of William & Mary
For Strategic Communications Planning
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Amount$69,200
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Program
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Date Awarded9/1/2010
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Term10.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This OE grant would assist the College of William and Mary, along with their partners the Development Gateway Foundation and Brigham Young University, to develop a revised "program plan" for implementation of the AidData project. While the multi-year AidData strategy has already been developed, AidData has yet to explore the full range of market opportunities for its products and the potential customer/user base for its different tools and services. With this additional assistance, AidData will be able to
* explore the viability of the possible uses and roles for AidData, starting with those outlined in AidData’s Phase II Five-Year Plan (February 2010);
* build consensus around an internally coherent vision and action plan; and
* help AidData develop the appropriate organizational structure and resource base to deliver on its promise and make the program sustainable.
As a result of this grant, AidData will be able to validate (and possibly revise) the targets in its five-year plan and will have a clear operational roadmap for achieving those targets, including an updated organizational and team structure. AidData will also have more accurate projections for allocating its own resources among the data collection, communication, and product development activities.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.wm.edu
Address
P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA, 23187, United States
Grants to this Grantee
For understanding China’s transition minerals investments
Housed at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute, AidData supports the use of data and innovative tools to solve pressing problems, precisely target resources, and use rigorous evidence to measure the impacts of policies and investments. This grant will support AidData in strengthening its data collection on China’s transition mineral investments and its relationship to the new global energy economy. (Substrategy: China National Policy)
for design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and investments that affect the Global South
A long-term, core partner of the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy within Gender Equity & Governance, AidData is a research lab at the College of William & Mary that generates evidence to help decision makers — both inside and outside of government — design, implement, and evaluate policies and investments in ways that improve the well-being of people living in low- and middle-income countries. Over the next three years, this renewal of general operating support to AidData will allow the institution to continue pursuing two major lines of effort: creating more voice and choice for development decisionmakers in the Global South, and promoting behavioral change among development finance institutions that is responsive to partner country needs and perspectives, and underpinned by rigorous and independent analysis. Tactically, this will mean support to programs in five areas: geospatial tools and impact evaluations, research on gender equity in development, the flagship Listening to Leaders multi-year study, best-in-class analysis and data collection on Chinese development finance, and measuring foreign policy influence. Each of these programs will form a core part of AidData's new 2024-26 strategic plan.
for geospatial impact evaluations and engagement with key evidence stakeholders in Africa
Housed at the College of William & Mary's Global Research Institute, AidData connects decision makers and researchers who have a shared interest in working together using granular data and innovative tools to solve pressing problems, precisely target resources, and use rigorous evidence to measure the impacts — intended and unintended — of policies and investments. Building on previous support to AidData in both geospatial research and African institutional engagement, this grant aims to dramatically expand AidData's partnerships with African organizations, especially around two key themes: advancing gender-transformative policy research and strengthening the use of geospatial evaluation tools for climate-sensitive agricultural programming. By partnering with a set of four Africa-based groups with distinct areas of engagement, AidData’s goal is to help inject critical evidence into major policy debates around gender-transformative initiatives in both East and West Africa (targeting both rural and urban settings), and to empower agriculture researchers across the continent to apply geospatial and remote sensing approaches to overcome limitations in surveys and other types of traditional data. In addition, this work has strong relevance to other parts of the Gender Equity & Governance and the Environment programs, and thus offers a chance for Evidence-Informed Policymaking to bolster complementarity across programs. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
