In 2022, Data-Pop Alliance (DPA) undertook Equatorial Guinea’s first Voluntary National Review (VNR) on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in conjunction with UNDP Equatorial Guinea and the Government of Equatorial Guinea (GoEG). In 2024, we supported the GoEG in conducting their second VRN, which offered a critical opportunity to assess the progress made since the first … Read More
WFP Innovation Accelerator Selects DPA’s “OPAL for Humanitarian Action” to Respond to Climate-Induced Migration in Senegal
Data-Pop Alliance’s “OPAL for Humanitarian Action (OPAL4HA)” project was selected by the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Innovation Accelerator as one of four early-stage projects to join its Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator Programme (HIAP), out of 379 applications from 85 countries. The 6-month selection process involved participating in a Bootcamp and pitching to the HIAP team and funders along 16 finalists in … Read More
New Report Series: Assessment of Impacts and Implications of COVID-19 in Four Sub-Saharan African Countries
Data-Pop Alliance (DPA) is glad to share the main outputs of a year-long collaboration with four UNDP Country Offices in sub-Saharan Africa in the form of four reports titled Impacts and Implications of COVID-19 in Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, South Sudan and Togo. These reports, developed as part of UNDP’s technical leadership of the UN system’s framework for the socio-economic response … Read More
LWL #19 The Dispute Over 5G
LINKS WE LIKE #19 China and the United States are the biggest adversaries on the dispute over who will control one of the main technological advances in recent history: 5G, or fifth generation cellular network technology. 5G promises to connect everything. As Will Knight from the MIT Technology Review points out, these technologies “will replace cable connections and open the … Read More