So I recently discovered that the standard includes the OECD policy markers. The one of interest for me is the gender marker, but I am sure other users or potential users are interested in other markers. To my amazement/joy the standard not only includes the policy marker but also if it is principal or significant. I couldn’t figure out any way to search d-portal for the policy markers though, and then I wondered if any publish actually publishes the information, or its just code that is there because it should be used. So I searched Canada’s xml and found 895 mentions of the gender policy marker (Yohanna Loucheur congrats), but outside of that I have no idea how to access that information. I think finding projects by their gender policy marker could be a massively helpful tool for users (myself included), so I have two questions:
- Is there a way to search activities by policy markers currently besides via the xml?
- What would it take to make them easily searchable in D-portal?
Martin Akerman Andie Vaughn Steven Flower John Adams Melinda Cuzner Bill Anderson
Happy to walk through use cases or why I think this information is super important to have.
I have never heard of SAVi and google wasn’t super helpful in teaching me about it. Are your IATI files linked to the Swedish open aid portal so the policy markers will also appear in IATI?
Hi Aria Grabowski ,
If you raise an issue for this in Github: https://github.com/devinit/D-Portal/issues then Kris and Shi can take a look at it for you.
I spoke with them today and it is only a couple of days of work so they should be able to do it for you.
K
Hi, sorry for the late reply. Well, the SAVi i read about on the d-portal about page (http://www.d-portal.org/about.html). I have never looked into it myself so I will be of no help to you there, sorry!
And yes, our Openaid.se is actually built on or IATI files, and the policy markers have been published for quite some time according to the standard. I hope you find what you are looking for.