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A man lines up six bright water bottles under a series of outside taps
Definitions matter – part two
… that were set far too low. Added to this is insufficient official data in many nations, including a lack of censuses or inaccessibility of their data. And for many issues and nations, the data needed – for instance … It has done much to improve the quality and range of available statistics on water and sanitation. But it has to rely on data provided …
Insight, 08 December 2021
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Making the invisible visible: generating data on ‘slums’ at local, city and global scales
… The largest and most detailed set of data about what are termed ‘slums’ or ‘informal settlements’ has been … and their support NGOs are affiliated. This paper describes how this data set was built and how it is being developed – and the challenges of … and contrast different settlements and to aggregate to get city-level statistics. This also contributes to a much more detailed understanding …
Publication, 01 December 2015
A cow and two goats eat grass surrounded by waste. There are houses and people in the background.
Why does so little aid seem to go to basic needs? – part two
… even less explicit attention. It also described the detail in the statistics monitoring commitments by aid agencies produced by the … But there is no project code for slum upgrading. And because its data does not distinguish between rural and urban areas, some key urban …
Insight, 24 January 2023
Aerial view of an informal settlement and an urban centre in the background
Rethinking household surveys reveals true picture of health inequality
… Previous blogs in this series have highlighted the lack of data on health and other development issues in informal settlements – … causes. It has done this by developing new methodologies to fill data gaps. APHRC’s household survey (PDF) of all Nairobi’s informal … and health outcomes in informal settlements get hidden in aggregate statistics for urban and rural populations. City-wide averages will …
Insight, 18 January 2022
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No hidden catch - Mainstreaming values of small-scale fisheries in national accounts
… It is notoriously difficult to obtain data for fisheries, especially for the more elusive small-scale sector, … to operate under the radar. These guidelines aim to assist national statistics officers and others improve the way they account for … efforts to collect statistics for SSF and 2) presenting how this data can feed into national accounts using the international statistical …
Publication, 01 February 2019
Occupy London protestors outside St Paul's Cathedral.
Statistics: The middle tells you nothing about the extremes
Insight, 24 October 2012
Surveying residents in the settlement of Tank Mohalla, Bangalore, India (Photo: CSTEPIN, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Local democracy as a substitute for data (and rather a good substitute too)
… Everyone seems to want data or more data. Data that helps target the 'right' people with the 'right' things. Data … Local democracy as a substitute for data (and rather a good substitute too) …
Insight, 16 January 2015
Floating boards on a lake, hiding the fish farming cages underneath
Lessons for building a natural capital legacy
… of an information value chain . It starts with complex collections of data that are manipulated, analysed and then represented through … sustainable development decision-making in Uganda ’ comes in. From data to delivery; from technical information to policy action The … Environment Management Authority (NEMA) , the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) and the National Planning Authority (NPA) , working …
Insight, 16 August 2021
Two people holding plants and discussing.
Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions
… come from urban areas. Heard it all before?  That’s because these statistics are typically used to draw the straightforward conclusion: … strong winds, landslides and rising sea levels. More action-oriented data and research is needed to understand hazards, such as extreme heat …
Insight, 20 November 2024
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FishCounts: increasing the visibility of small-scale fisheries in Cambodia’s national planning
… often overlooked in policy making, partly due to a lack of reliable data. Developing a fisheries satellite account through the System of … report explores the current state of Cambodia’s fisheries and the data that would be needed to develop such a set of accounts. It …
Publication, 01 May 2020