Des Chiffres et Des Jeunes (DCDJ) Program

DCDJ Fellow

The DCDJ program seeks to improve the data ecosystem in Côte d’Ivoire, increase the supply and demand for data – particularly health data – and to train and support data users. Des Chiffres et Des Jeunes (DCDJ) is a program led by Development Gateway (DG) and funded by the MCC-PEPFAR Data Collaboratives for Local Impact […]

Developing a Data Inventory

Summary DCDJ and the Council of NGOs fighting AIDS and other pandemics in Côte d’Ivoire (COSCI) built a searchable list of hyper-local datasets across CIV. The data inventory holds records of which organizations have datasets related to topics of community interest, for example, which organizations have data on the number of individuals tested for HIV/AIDS in a specific year. The benefit is in collating information from disparate sources into one unified platform reduces duplication of efforts and siloed information. Using this data inventory, anyone – local officials, clinicians, community gr

Designing Data Fellowships

Who is this resource for? This resource is for community leaders, organizations, or government agencies seeking to build Data Fellowship programs. It outlines the need for and essential considerations to develop such fellowships with specific examples and lessons learned by the Des Chiffres et Des Jeunes (DCDJ) program over three cohorts of Fellows, funded by the Data Collaboratives for Local Impact (DCLI) in Côte d’Ivoire. This guide provides a step-by-step methodology that development actors can follow to develop their own Data Fellowship programs. How do I get started? Thinking of putting i