Emergentally Blog

Learn more about Emergentally’s work in supporting governments, multilaterals and CSOs to address their development challenges.

Improving development outcomes in Liberia: the Liberia Development Dashboard

28 November 2025

The Liberia Development Dashboard has been used by a wide range of development actors. This blog describes the Dashboard’s contribution to improving development outcomes in Liberia.

Publish Once, Use Often: Realising the Promise of Data in Humanitarian Work

24 June 2025

A new report by Emergentally for ICVA identifies the challenges and opportunities of sharing and using data on NGO activities, and provides recommendations, including on how to meet the needs of local and national actors.

Publish Once, Use Often: Realising the promise of data in humanitarian work

Supporting Governments to Use IATI Data in Francophone West Africa

5 June 2025

Emergentally facilitated a three-day workshop with governments and development partners in francophone West Africa, with the aim of ensuring that better data can help strengthen development effectiveness.

Participants of the Francophone West Africa Workshop

Responding to the U.S. Foreign Assistance Funding Freeze

24 March 2025

U.S. foreign assistance funding has been frozen since January 20th, 2025, pending a review of all programmes. As the world’s single largest development partner, this has an effect at the country level. We discuss how Emergentally is supporting partners and colleagues to respond to the evolving situation.

Discussing the response to the U.S. funding freeze at the IATI European Community Dialogue in Brussels in March 2025

Dashboard Presented at UN High-Level Side Event

20 February 2025

The Government of Liberia presented the Liberia Project Dashboard at a High-Level Side Event at the United Nations, emphasising the Dashboard’s position as the world-leading development management solution.

Speakers at the full-capacity UN side event.

Supporting use of IATI data in East Africa

15 November 2024

Emergentally supported the IATI Secretariat’s IATI Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. We learned from participants about their need for data on development and humanitarian activities, and their experience with IATI tools and data.

Towards a new IATI (data use) strategy

26 September 2024

Emergentally has supported a range of partner country governments, development partners and civil society organisations to use IATI data over the last two years. This builds on fifteen years of experience with IATI data. We provide some initial suggestions for how to think about a new IATI data use strategy, as part of the next IATI Strategic Plan.

Government Projects Uploaded to the Liberia Project Dashboard

20 September 2024

For the first time, projects funded by the Government of Liberia have been uploaded to Liberia’s Project Dashboard.

Nigeria Development Cooperation Dashboard

23 August 2024

Working with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, we developed a prototype Dashboard to track development cooperation projects, as well as projects financed from the federal budget. We made a range of improvements to the Dashboard as part of this work.

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