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Accessing and using data Donor needs

Accessing and using data Donor needs. Siobhan Carey Chief Statistician DFID . 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA. Context. DFID budget is increasing 12% pa Consensus around the Managing for Development Results Agenda

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Accessing and using data Donor needs

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  1. Accessing and using dataDonor needs Siobhan Carey Chief Statistician DFID 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA

  2. Context • DFID budget is increasing 12% pa • Consensus around the Managing for Development Results Agenda • Creates expectations • So how can we help policy colleagues be more evidenced based? • The stupid things that test us - • Updates - not adequately referenced • Lack of metadata • Short lead in times • country dialogue with centre - who’s data to use • What would make us more effective ?

  3. Context • Programmes in almost 70 countries • Over 500 advisory staff – 10 disciplines • Posting – 2 to 4 years • Managing knowledge is difficult in general • Managing knowledge about data • Got to be a better way better use of better statistics

  4. “Looking for” at expense of “looking at” Access • All the data in a single space (WDI, UN, Country, DAC…) • Metadata –means to hold/capture • Ideally up to the minute - available on day produced • Other stuff - capturing the knowledge - referencing Communication • Tools to make the messages easy and quick to absorb • Automating routine reports properly cited

  5. Portal for Development Indicators Prototype • How feasible is it to have different data in the same space? • Is it useful? • Approached from two fronts • content - tested using indicators from different sources - not comprehensive • function - capturing the knowledge, additional graph and map features • Used DevInfo for convenience

  6. If this was easy it would have been done already • Issues around standards, definitions, classifications • Content management • getting stuff in • handling revisions • ownership / stewardship • Ideally not just indicators - distributions, microdata, project data, expenditure data, outputs……

  7. Expected benefits • Better and more timely data analysis for policy and country offices • More comprehensive analyses, using international data in conjunction with e.g. DFID expenditure; • Time saving in data extraction and presentation; • Easy and appropriate use by less-informed users including an enhanced awareness of the quality of the data for the end-user. • Help resolve discrepancies between data sources; • Coherence of the data used across DFID • Information about the data known to selected individuals is not lost. • Autotmation of routine processes and reports

  8. An example of why it might be useful - education

  9. Still looking at NER …

  10. That’s the why The what –

  11. DevInfo v 4.0 Standard indicator selection Goal/sector Time Geography

  12. DevInfo v 4.0 Presentations in tables

  13. DevInfo v 4.0 Presentations in Graphs

  14. DevInfo v 4.0 Presentations in Maps

  15. Next steps • Internal feedback is very positive • Adding more content • Deploying with a small group of users • But our needs aren’t unique • Have you a solution? • Can you help find a solution?

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