Data-Pop Alliance (DPA) is proud to announce a new $350,000 USD grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) to accelerate the development of OPAL for Humanitarian Action (OPAL4HA) to improve response to flooding in Senegal and beyond. This is the third consecutive grant from PJMF, after two grants totaling $700,000 in 2022 and 2023 to support our Data Feminism … 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
Introducing the Complete Paper Series: “Big Data to Address Global Development Challenges”
These 4 research papers were developed in collaboration with and funded by the Agence française de développement (AFD) between 2016 and 2019 under a joint research programme with Data-Pop Alliance and research partners titled “Strengthening the evidence-base for leveraging Big Data to address global development challenges”. The starting point was the realization, in 2016, that ‘we’ still had little hard academic evidence … Read More