FROM DATA
Empowering development
with open, comprehensive,
and inclusive data.
FROM DATA
TO ACTION
Empowering
development with
open, comprehensive,
and inclusive data.
As 2024 draws to a close, ODW looks backs on a decade of growth and learning — supporting countries to transform their data ecosystems, monitoring and promoting high-quality data and standards, providing research and data support to both countries and agencies, and leveraging combined substantive and networking resources to offer practical policy advice to improve data systems.
Ten years ago, Open Data Watch (ODW) started with a clear goal: that sustainable development can and must be empowered with quality operational data. It has been a journey defined by energizing partnerships, adding value, staying adaptable, and continually evolving.
Open Data Watch is an international, non-profit organization working at the intersection of open data and official statistics. Our work supports institutional change to build a world where data systems not only inform policies and track progress but also reflect and respect the people they serve. We deliver a wide range of services across three intersecting areas of work: policy advice, data support, and monitoring. Discover some of ODW’s contributions below:
The Open Data Inventory (ODIN) monitors the availability and openness of official statistics to help countries identify and address gaps.
The Data Value Chain clarifies the complex path of how raw data ultimately results in concrete impacts that improve lives.
The Gender Data Compass serves as a practical guide to understand national gender data systems and their enabling environment.
The Intersectional Data Framework highlights how inclusive data systems can address inequalities and empower communities for better development outcomes.
WHAT’S NEW?
FfD4: Investments in Data for Effective Development Financing
National data systems have grown significantly in the last decade, but still fall short in delivering actionable insights needed by policymakers to make better financing decisions for better development outcomes.
A Call for Inclusive Financing at FfD4
The recently published “Elements paper” for the outcome document of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) puts special focus on data and financing for data as a cornerstone of inclusive and evidence-based decision-making for sustainable development.
Gender-Inclusive Feminist Urban Design
CHANGE, Data-Pop Alliance and Open Data Watch announce a new initiative and Inception Report aimed to assist city planners create inclusive and safe cities for women, girls, and diverse gender identities through better gender data.