1. Accessing and using data Donor needs 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA Siobhan Carey Chief Statistician DFID

5. Page 4 Context DFID budget is increasing 12% pa Consensus around the Managing for Development Results Agenda Creates expectations So how can we help policy colleagues be more evidenced based? The stupid things that test us - Updates - not adequately referenced Lack of metadata Short lead in times country dialogue with centre - who’s data to use What would make us more effective ?

6. Page 5 Context Programmes in almost 70 countries Over 500 advisory staff – 10 disciplines Posting – 2 to 4 years Managing knowledge is difficult in general Managing knowledge about data Got to be a better way better use of better statistics

8. Page 7 “Looking for” at expense of “looking at” Access All the data in a single space (WDI, UN, Country, DAC…) Metadata –means to hold/capture Ideally up to the minute - available on day produced Other stuff - capturing the knowledge - referencing Communication Tools to make the messages easy and quick to absorb Automating routine reports properly cited

9. Page 8 Portal for Development Indicators Prototype How feasible is it to have different data in the same space? Is it useful? Approached from two fronts content - tested using indicators from different sources - not comprehensive function - capturing the knowledge, additional graph and map features Used DevInfo for convenience

10. Page 9 If this was easy it would have been done already Issues around standards, definitions, classifications Content management getting stuff in handling revisions ownership / stewardship Ideally not just indicators - distributions, microdata, project data, expenditure data, outputs……

11. Page 10 Questions Are these problems recognisable? shared? Have you found clever ways around it? Would something like this be useful? What else would be on the wish list? Should we go ahead and build?

12. Page 11 Expected benefits Better and more timely data analysis for policy and country offices More comprehensive analyses, using international data in conjunction with e.g. DFID expenditure; Time saving in data extraction and presentation; Easy and appropriate use by less-informed users including an enhanced awareness of the quality of the data for the end-user. Help resolve discrepancies between data sources; Coherence of the data used across DFID Information about the data known to selected individuals is not lost. Autotmation of routine processes and reports

13. Page 12 An example of why it might be useful - education

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21. DevInfo v 4.0 Standard indicator selection Goal/sector Time Geography

22. DevInfo v 4.0 Presentations in tables

23. DevInfo v 4.0 Presentations in Graphs

24. DevInfo v 4.0 Presentations in Maps

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44. Page 43 Next steps Internal feedback is very positive Adding more content Deploying with a small group of users But our needs aren’t unique Have you a solution? Can you help find a solution?