Digital Agricultural Ecosystem in Mali
Development Gateway: an IREX Venture (DG) and Athena Infonomics conducted an assessment of the digital agricultural ecosystem in Mali between September 2021 and January 2022. The assessment was conducted using DG’s Custom Assessment Landscape Methodology (CALM), which uses a combination of desktop research and mixed data collection methods, including key informant interviews, surveys, and data analysis to understand the context, collect user needs, and identify the links – or missing links – between key stakeholders in a specific sector.
Ecosystème Numérique Agricole au Mali
Development Gateway: an IREX Venture (DG) et Athena Infonomics ont effectué une évaluation de l’écosystème agricole numérique au Mali, entre septembre 2021 et janvier 2022, suivant la méthodologie Country Assessment Landscape Methodology (CALM) de DG. La méthodologie CALM combine la recherche documentaire et des méthodes mixtes de collecte de données, telles que les entretiens avec des informateurs clés (EIC), les enquêtes et les analyses fines d’informations, pour comprendre le contexte, recueillir les besoins des utilisateurs et identifier les liens – ou l’absence de liens – entre les parties prenantes d’un secteur spécifique.
DG’s Strategic Plan FY 2023 to 2025
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Announcing: The VIFAA Accelerator
Since 2017, Development Gateway and partners have been working on the Visualizing Insights on Fertilizer for African Agriculture (VIFAA) Program to support development partners and the private sector to respond to changes in the fertilizer market, ensuring that sufficient quantities and appropriate fertilizers reach farmers at the right time for planting. Recently, DG received funding to expand the program to include four to six additional countries through 2023.
Five Tips for Successful Co-Design
As co-designing gains traction in the international development sector, Deputy Director of Programs Andrea Ulrich outlines five ways in which DG has found success co-designing projects with stakeholders.
Cashew-IN Platform Demo
Development Gateway (DG) and Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) have partnered to launch an innovative platform to support the West African cashew sector and increase profitability for cashew farmers. Comprehensive and reliable data is required for cashew farmers, producers, processors, and others in the West African cashew sector to increase profits, reduce loss, and improve global competitiveness.
In this video, Vanessa Baudin Sanchez and Nadejda Mândrescu demonstrate the features of the Cashew-IN platform and discuss the underlying technology.
AD3ventures in Mapping
Administrative data – data from civil registration and vital statistics systems, and sectoral (health, education, judicial, social protection) management information systems – is rich with insights on citizen needs and priorities. Though timely and disaggregated administrative data can complement official statistics, it comes with its own data quality, availability, and use challenges.
AD3 ou une aventure cartographique
Par le biais d’AD3, nous avons développé un tableau de bord qui se concentre sur le climat, les prix du marché, les maladies du bétail, le niveau des fleuves et les précipitations annuelles, entre autres thèmes. Si le tableau de bord lui-même est un référentiel d’informations utile, la méthode d’élaboration des cartes et d’itération des commentaires des utilisateurs a permis d’identifier les bonnes pratiques en matière de visualisation des données.
Women in Mining as Actors of Sustainable Development
Launched last week in Conakry, the Women in Mining initiative builds on our existing work in the mining industry in Guinea. With partners, DG will assess the involvement of women in disbursement of local economic development funds in the Boke region and develop a digital tool to visualize the findings.