ADePT: a Great Software for Data & Analytical Reports

  SUBMITTED BY IHSSANE ON  Growth & Crisis ADePT, the Software Platform for Automated Economic Analysis, is a free program designed to simplify and speed-up the production of analytical reports. Created by the Research Department (DECRG) of the World Bank, it can be used to extract indicators from micro-level surveys and present them in a print-ready [...]

Latin Indigenous Peoples Hard Hit by Climate Change

  SUBMITTED BY TOM GRUBISICH ON Development Marketplace ome 28 million members of Indigenous Peoples live in Latin America, many of them in poverty and prone to flooding and other weather extremes caused or exacerbated by climate change.  A number of finalist projects aim to give Indigenous Peoples in Latin America a cushion against weather extremes. Here’s a [...]

Scaling Up Social Accountability

  SUBMITTED BY DARSHANA PATEL ON  People, Spaces, Deliberation Strengthening accountability relationships between policy makers, service providers and citizens is at the core of the public accountability effort. But because traditional, supply-side interventions alone have not been able to deliver expected development outcomes; governance practitioners, civil society and policy-makers are increasingly looking towards citizen-driven, social accountability [...]