With growing uncertainties in higher education due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, academic planners and decision-makers around the United States are adopting innovative measures to be more efficient, collaborative, and transparent in their efforts to achieve institutional priorities.
In partnership with UNICEF HQ and UNICEF Sierra Leone, Community Systems Foundation (CSF) facilitated a capacity building workshop that enabled health policy planners to use the Equitable Impact Sensitive Tool (EQUIST).
This was done to support the government in modeling the impact of scaling up life-saving health and nutrition interventions, to reduce child mortality in the country.
From Urban Imperative by Edward Glaeser & Abha Joshi-Ghani, cities can best be understood as a ‘triad of forces’. While commonly seen as physical entities, such as streets, buildings, and subways, and viewed from the lens of the public sector, which defines the borders of the city and has the responsibility for providing clean water and public safety, Glaeser and Joshi-Ghani note that cities have a third, equally important, element. That is, “the magic of human interaction.” [1]
From 8-12 July 2019, representatives from the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Library Services, Turks and Caicos Islandsparticipated in a week-long OpenEMIS Lab training in New York City. The Advanced Lab Training focused on Data Analytics, supporting the Ministry in developing measurable objectives, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to track progress and goals.The aim of the training session was to assist country teams in producing indicators to measure the impact and progress of the education sector and to inform policy planners to make better data driven deci
Mariem Hamdi, Faites défiler vers le bas pour l'histoire en françaisIn early October, 2023, the Community Systems Foundation (CSF) team arrived in Lomé, Togo to deliver a Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on theTogo Data Platform.With support from UNICEF, participants from National Institute of Statistics and Economic and Demographic Studies (INSEED) and UNICEF Togo joined the week-long Training of Trainers workshop for an in-depth understanding of the Data For All (DFA) tools configured for their national data platforms.6 participants from INSEED and 2 from UNICEF participated in traini
In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the city government of Coimbatore is currently engaged in its most direct and transparent effort to monitor and report progress on the urban development to its 1.6 million citizens.
With support from domestic and international stakeholders, the city has proudly rolled out the CoimbatoreOpen Data PortalandDashboard.Community Systems Foundation’s technical partner,Avalon Information Systems, designed and developed the city-level integrated platform.
A Solution to Monitor and Report on Progress against the Arab Regional Multidimensional Poverty Strategy
Community Systems Foundation (CSF) is partnering with the League of Arab States (LAS) to monitor regional and national progress against the Arab Regional Multidimensional Poverty Strategy.
CSF was invited by LAS, to present at the “Multidimensional Poverty in the Arab region” workshop, 16 - 18 April, in Amman, Jordan.
DFA in Zanzibar: Leveraging Multiple Data For All Applications to Monitor Development Progress.
In 2019, Community Systems Foundation began its assistance to the government of Zanzibar in monitoring progress towards achieving national development targets and socio-economic goals through ZanzibarInfo, a platform that strengthens transparency and accountability to key development information. Having seen the results of our work in deploying Data For All tools in Tanzania, the government of Zanzibar reached out to CSF to partner on a similar initiative.
Good practice at GIZ in India - Coimbatore SDG Dashboard
Community Systems Foundation is proud to share good news from our partners. The Coimbatore SDG dashboard, designed and developed by our technical partner Avalon Information Systems has been included as a good practice in GIZ projects in India under governance and SDGs.