Work
Innovations & Entrepreneurship
Background
A global partnership program that provides developing countries references to innovative technologies and business models that drive sustainable growth.
Objectives
Provide quick access to resources and best practices documentation, and connect innovative thinking with development opportunities and funding.
Allow visitors to quickly and easily find the information they need, whether it be incubator profiles, news and updates about current projects, or documented best practices.
Act as an information hub and knowledge platform allowing communities of practice to share and refine information.
Projects & Evaluations
Background
The Independent Evaluation Group is charged with evaluating a leading multilateral organization’s activities and assessing its work.
Objectives
To influence the ability of the organization and its partnering countries to achieve better global development outcomes.
Knowledge management platform for consolidating, sharing and disseminating key findings/evaluation reports.
Recommendations, lessons and references drawn from the organization’s development experiences.
Provide access to various resources to improve monitoring and evaluation efforts including "how to" publications and working papers.
Discussion Hub
Background
A global multi-stakeholder engagement program that helps implement more effective solutions to local, regional and global development challenges.
Objectives
Facilitate discussions and ongoing dialogue between the client and stakeholders―government, civil society, media, academia, and the private sector.
To seek the views of those affected by their work but outside the internal decision making process.
Ensuring that affected and interested parties express their views about a particular policy, strategy, study, or program, and a wide range of potential impacts is taken into account.
To make discussions an essential component of the open and accessible governance of the Institution.
Provides access and information for stakeholders about relevant aspects of the process.
Stakeholder engagement and representation and accountable feedback management.
Land & Water Management
Background
African Union's planning agency formed a global partnership program to scale up sustainable land and water management across sectors in over 23 Sub-Saharan countries.
Objectives
Help program partners to identify, generate, share and disseminate information.
Build knowledge products and niche support tools, guidelines and best practices.
Sustain dialogue among relevant stakeholders, institutions and countries.
Social Accountability
Background
A global partnership program which supports civil society and governments to work together to solve critical governance challenges in developing countries.
Objectives
Bring key stakeholders and development partners together to collaborate on projects.
Foster constructive engagement for solving governance and development challenges.
Hub for facilitating the advancement of knowledge and learning on social accountability.
Provide a space to collaborate, exchange and learn the latest debates and practices on Social Accountability.
Develop innovative ways of incorporating learning into practice and to demonstrate and document results.
Mobile App
Background
Mobile application that brings practitioners, networks and institutions together to help find solutions for Africa's development challenges.
Highlights
Access data on economic indicators and view publications of its economic outreach policies and projects over mobile phones and tablets.
Global eLearning mobile portal for sharing knowledge resources for economic development.
Data Visualization tool to view key African economic indicators while on the move.
Sustainable Energy
Background
A global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation which connects practitioners and institutions to help build capacity for the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies.
Highlights
Design and develop a knowledge portal for the climate change practice group of a leading global development organization that promotes sustainable energy.
Provide easy content update and provide detailed know-how on developing large-scale deployment programs for key technologies.
Introduce users to various elements of operational solution and learning toolkits.
Encourage new thinking and build a solution-oriented approach to sustainable energy.
Education
Sector: Education
Background: A Global Partnership program dedicated to ensuring that all children receive quality basic education. Achieves that aim by efficiently using national and international resources that match donor priorities with the education strategy of the developing country recipients.
Highlights
Redesign, develop and enhance the publicly accessible website
Design and develop ‘password-protected’ site accessible to selected users
Build a workflow system for the grants application process, a stable secure document library
Improve functionality, information architecture, and navigation of the site
Adjust navigation to reflect changes
Sustainable Growth
Sector: Education
A global partnership program that provides references to developing countries for innovative technologies and business models that drive sustainable growth.
Highlights
Enhance site design and create more intuitive the user interface
Allow visitors to quickly and easily find the information they need, whether it be incubator profiles, news and updates about current projects, or documented best practices
Adjust navigation to reflect change
Interactive Maps & Charts
Background
A peace-building think tank in collaboration with a leading international development organization wanted to design and build an interactive online interface for their statistical tool.
Objectives
Design an online interface to present the results of a statistical tool used to measure and monitor changes in communities.
Analyze and present data drawn from various sources (polling, interviews, media analysis etc.) and then compile on a scale of 1 to 9.
Build an interactive map with the ability to upload data and link to various geographic points of the map.
Make comparisons of results with previous years, or with other countries.