Andreas Pawelke & Basma Albanna Together with the GIZ Data Lab, the GIZ Sector Network Rural Development Asia and the Pacific, the GIZ Sector Network Rural Development Africa, and Prof. Jadu Dash of the University of Southampton, we trained 14 GIZ teams working on climate change mitigation and adaptation in…

tl;dr: we were able to demonstrate the viability of the method and will continue to work on the widespread adoption of DPPD. If you want to get involved, reach out at mail[at]datapoweredpd.org Where we started Work in the data for development space tends to focus on the aggregate — the collective behavior of…

This blog post was written by Basma Albanna and originally published on the ICT4D Blog on 10 May 2022. Understanding the Context How are some global South researchers able to overcome contextual constraints and become highly cited? There is a clear research divide between the global South…

The blog post was written by Andreas Pawelke & Richard Heeks and originally published on the Data Empowerment blog on 4 May 2022. A new way to empower? Data powered positive deviance (DPPD) is a method that relies on both traditional and non-traditional data to identify grassroots solutions to complex development problems, such as deforestation…

By Assane Tchagam Mallam Boukar, Head of Solutions Mapping; Rachida Mani Kango Dan Koulou, Head of Exploration; Moustapha Sahirou Yacouba, Head of Experimentation, all UNDP Accelerator Lab Niger; Moctar Seydou, National Economist; Amadou Djibo, Communications Manager, both UNDP Niger Nearly 20% of the Nigerien population suffer from food insecurity. Driven…

By Paulina Jiménez, Head of Solution Mapping, Ana M. Grijalva, Head of Exploration, both UNDP Accelerator Lab Ecuador, and Aymé Muzo, Independent Consultant for UNDP The UNDP Ecuador Accelerator Lab, along with GIZ Ecuador, the GIZ Data Lab, and the University of Manchester, conducted a Data Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD)…

Part 2: From quantitative to qualitative analysis By: Alejandra Cervantes, Technical Advisor, Agenda 2030 Initiative, GIZ Mexico; Daniela Torres, Technical Advisor, Agenda 2030 Initiative, GIZ Mexico; Gabriela Ríos, Head of Exploration, UNDP Mexico Accelerator Lab. In the first installment of this series, we recounted our initial steps in using the…

On November 25, 2021, the Data Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD) initiative launched the DPPD handbook. It provides step-by-step guide to applying the DPPD method — a mixed methods approach that relies on a combination of traditional and non-traditional data for identifying grassroots solutions to complex development problems. Read the DPPD…

By Ana M. Grijalva, Head of Exploration, UNDP Accelerator Lab Ecuador, Paulina Jiménez, Head of Solution Mapping, UNDP Accelerator Lab Ecuador with Basma Albanna, Doctoral Researcher, University of Manchester, and Jeremy Boy, Network Data Visualization Engineer, UNDP Accelerator Labs. No Forest, No Life: The Importance of Deforestation Deforestation is an…