Development Initiatives Poverty Research America

The conflict in ukraine had a huge impact, both directly in humanitarian terms and beyond, as the ripple effects contributed to a global energy, food and economic crisis. While ukraine commanded global attention, numerous other complex humanitarian crises persisted, and financing continued to fall far short of need. Amid these challenges, di's focus on unlocking the power of data, putting partnerships at the heart of our work, providing data-driven evidence and analysis and connecting the local to the global enabled us to add significant value. In uganda, we worked with local partners to strengthen sub-national data value chains, aiming to improve the effectiveness and accountability of local governments across health; agriculture; water, sanitation, and hygiene; education and youth employment. In nepal, we supported municipalities to implement an integrated data management system to improve the coherence and availability of data at the local level. On the leave no one behind agenda, we argued for a multidimensional approach to measuring Poverty and highlighted global inequality trends. On crisis financing, our global humanitarian assistance report showed how climate change, covid-19 and conflict is driving unprecedented humanitarian need. We also highlighted the stark difference between the international response to crises in somalia and ukraine, tracked and advocated for greater funding for local actors to strengthen humanitarian response, and analyzed the failure to adequately address gender-based violence in funding for emergencies. On Development finance, we launched an interactive tool to track near real-time data on aid commitments and analyzed the latest global trends in official Development assistance (oda), the policies of major donors and the impact of cuts. At cop27, we highlighted the dire shortfall in the international response to the pakistan floods, and discussed the need to build much more accountability for climate finance commitments. We worked with partners to produce the global nutrition report and created a tool to track commitments on nutrition and food security. Responding to growing calls for urgent reform of the global financial architecture, we worked with partners to reimagine how global public investment could offer a new way to finance sustainable Development fit for the 21st century. Reflecting on our achievements in 2022, we made substantial contributions to achieving our mission. In 2023, we will continue this work while exploring several exciting new growth areas. Our experts continue to serve on multiple external advisory boards and committees, including the expert working group and steering committee of a new concept for international public financing, global public investment (gpi), the organizing committee of the un world data forum, the technical working group of the global partnership for sustainable Development data, and bond's future dialogues group on an international Development system for a post-2030 world.