United Nations Foundation
For A Learning Agenda For Public/private Data Partnerships
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/21/2020
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), hosted by the United Nations Foundation, engages with partners across sectors to broker partnerships that enable the production, sharing, and use of better data to drive better decisions and better lives for all. With this grant, GPSDD will work to increase government actors’ access to and use of privately held data by (a) improved governance, management skills, and capacity of government actors in focus countries to access and ultimately use privately held data; and (b) advanced learning on the pathways from strengthening governance and management capacity to smoother data access and increased data use. This grant will advance one of the goals under our Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy, that governments use new and traditional forms of data to improve policy decision making and ultimately outcomes for people.
About the Grantee
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Address
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Grants to this Grantee
for support to the Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) through the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)
The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) is a nonprofit initiative of the United Nations Foundation dedicated to ensuring all people benefit from the potential of digital technologies to improve access to critical public and private services and to fuel innovation economies while mitigating the downside risk of data abuses such as enabling surveillance and repression, exacerbating the exclusion of vulnerable individuals and communities, and undermining competitive markets. The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a peer engagement and learning network for senior Africa-based practitioners tackling the thorniest data policy and governance issues. It works to build the capacity of decision makers across the continent through exchange of knowledge and experiences within a values-oriented framework designed to expand the value of data for governments, markets, and people while safeguarding key civil liberties. In this growth stage, ADLI will expand participation in the network from five to 16 countries, and create new cohorts of parliamentarians and government digital technology coordinators — leaders of agencies charged with executing national digital policies. The grant will also broaden the types of engagement offered, and invest in durable infrastructure for peer exchange and knowledge discovery, creating cross-border collaboration to support data governance approaches designed by and for Africans, and support the development of a sustainable revenue model to support the network in the long term. This grant sits within a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. The goal of this cluster is to help governments in East and West Africa develop policy frameworks that balance public good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
The United Nations Foundation serves as the institutional host of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), which brings together government, private-sector, civil society, and international institutions to harness new and traditional sources of data to better understand and address development challenges. This grant will support the implementation of the partnership’s new strategic plan, which seeks to solve three major problems: (a) how to harness up-to-date data to ensure decisions are informed by current and changing contexts; (b) how to safely include and represent all people in data and the data value chain; and (c) how to govern data fairly and safely. This grant supports the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy goal that governments in East and West Africa make better use of data to improve decision making and outcomes for people.
