Data

This is a joint post with Alex Ezeh. The long-awaited high-level panel report on the post-2015 development agenda called for a “data revolution” and proposes a new international initiative to get the job done.  The proposed public-private initiative, called the Global Partnership o...

  The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria recently made it easier to find out where their money is going with the launch of a new, online grant portfolio portal.   This welcome and timely tool comes amid the Global Fund’s ambitious replenishment process that asks don...

As part of a working group looking at “Data for African Development” together with the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, I'm here to defend the idea of "seeing like a state" in 21st century Africa. I just think Bill Gates is doing it wrong.