This consultancy developed a comprehensive system to strengthen UNFPA’s efforts in Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH). Through a system-wide needs assessment, detailed data analysis, and the creation of an interactive Power BI dashboard, it generated evidence-based...
The project aims to strengthen global SDG reporting by addressing persistent data gaps and systemic inequities impacting People of African Descent (PAD) worldwide, with particular attention to women, girls, and youth. It seeks to bridge critical information gaps, elevate the...
The humanitarian sector stands at a pivotal moment in determining how to responsibly harness emerging technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to enhance the speed, precision, and impact of humanitarian action. Among these tools, mobile data holds particular...
The Gender Tool harnesses advanced technology to generate timely, actionable insights that enhance decision-making for gender equality. With a user-friendly interface, it streamlines the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data, integrates AI assistance, and provides support from a team...
DPA, in partnership with UNICEF, developed the next iteration of the Technology Playbook content in a manner that incorporated design improvements, enhancing usability for all UNICEF staff and adaptability of the resources across the spectrum of UNICEF digital initiatives. The...
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation granted $400,000 to DPA to support key projects. For the Technology and Democracy Program, this grant funded our “Infocracy Studies,” which aimed to address the implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) on the democratic process....
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) awarded DPA’s Data Feminism Program a twelve-month, $300,000 grant to support our work advancing intersectional, data-driven research, training and advocacy to continue fostering gender equality across Latin America and the Caribbean, the MENA region...
ADE and DPA have created WIND-MEAL, a portfolio of services that build and improve Whole-of-Institution Data-enabled (WIND) Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems, with a focus on accountability (A) up to impact, and on learning perspectives (L) t generate...
“Technology Through Feminist Lenses” is a trilingual Book and Movie Club by DPA and Eureka, supported by the Patrick J McGovern Foundation. Through curated content, it explored technology from intersectional feminist perspectives—addressing race, class, and gender—while fostering community and cross-cultural...
“Counting Femicide with Catherine D’Ignazio”, a multilingual Book Club supported by MIT Press, explored data activism and gender-based violence through the book “Counting Femicide: Data Feminism in Action“, by Catherine D’Ignazio. Featuring eight live sessions with the author, it brought...
In partnership with Southern Voice, this research project aimed to rebuild the discourse on development effectiveness from a Southern perspective by developing a new methodological framework. The key objective was to create a methodological guide that leverages innovative data sources...
DPA worked alongside UNESCO to develop an analytical methodology and data partnerships to monitor and understand the status of press freedom and media development worldwide. DPA collected and analyzed over 150 data sources to produce comprehensive, data-driven evidence on global...
This paper, developed in cooperation with the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, highlighted overall takeaways and recommendations in the areas of privacy protection, responsible data governance, transparency, and accountability for unleashing big data-driven innovation. These included: (1) Putting ‘privacy...
This white paper, developed in partnership with and funded by The World Bank, examined Call Detail Records (CDRs) and their expanding role in providing insight into human behavior, movements, and social interactions. After providing additional contextual elements (Part 1), the...
This project, funded by UNDP, will support the Recovery Solutions and Human Mobility team in its conceptualisation of a new approach, articulating the Livelihoods and Economic Recovery offer, and reviewing, updating and documenting policies, programmes and tools on livelihoods and...
Building on the first publication “Sharing is Caring: Four Key Requirements for Sustainable Private Data Sharing and Use for Public Good”, this paper, developed in partnership with the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, looks at how digital technologies and...
This interactive handbook, developed in collaboration with the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), serves as a hands-on resource to help mid-to-senior level staff of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and other interested parties understand and develop MD4D projects....
DPA developed a Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) framework to provide NRC Country Offices (COs) with a tool to self-assess their digital transformation journey based on the perceptions and experiences of its staff. The DMA framework is the analytical background guiding...
In this review commissioned by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), DPA studied the development, roll-out, and implementation of Cycles, a digital grants and project cycle management tool. DPA assessed the state and effectiveness of the current system, and identified current...
Data-Pop Alliance (DPA), in partnership with CABI, launched a collaborative project to develop a comprehensive repository of resources highlighting the utility of the FAIR Data Principles for agricultural development. This initiative aims to assist project officers in effectively integrating the...
