Dear all,
On behalf of Caritas Denmark, we, as EyeOpenerWorks, are currently conducting a research on IATI activities in Uganda (It’s the research that was mentioned in a topic by Maj Forum below).
Part of the research consists of mappig all the current activities on capacity-building of local organizations regarding IATI in Uganda. The research itself serves the purpose of (possibly) designing a capacity-building facility for local CSOs on how to publish and navigate IATI data.
As such, we would hereby like to find out if there are IATI activities taking place that are not yet on our radar! So i would warmly like to invite everybody who knows of such activities.
Thanks!
Aria Grabowski this is interesting, given the previous activities of Oxfam. Maybe you could exchange on this?
Alexander Bongers IATI just funded some work of Oxfam through the IATI data use fund that related to training and supporting NGOs on IATI data use. We will publish something on the website (data use fund) shortly.
Hi Lea Zoric ,
Thanks for mentioning! We are very much interested to find out what it really was about and how that worked out.
Aria Grabowski Curious to hear about your experiences!
Hi,
In Coordination with our Oxfam Uganda office I ran multiple trainings for about 30 people in various arms of civil society to learn how to use IATI data in monitoring, accountability, and awareness raising around services provided by external funds. Then we used the data use fund to put that training into practice with the hope that when organizations actually got to use IATI data it would raise awareness within their organizations and partners/colleagues about how useful the data can be resulting in more use. We did not nor are we engaging on any publishing activities.
Hi Aria, that is interesting to hear. I already heard some things about those trainings, for example this morning I had an interview with representatives of SEATINI who had attended it and they were very positive.
So, if I may ask, could you share a little bit of insights on the practical side of the trainings? How long would they take? Do you have any best practices / lessons learned / tips regarding the training? And also, is there a deliberate reason why you did not focus on publishing?
Thank you!
Alexander
Is there a way we can move this conversation to email?
Yes, of course. My e-mail is alexander@eyeopenerworks.org. Thank you!