This guide supports development practitioners exploring data innovation to use new data sources and methods to better understand challenges. It offers practical steps from idea to proof-of-concept, helping integrate faster insights into planning. It also provides tools to build support within and beyond organisations for more resilient, targeted development solutions.

Effective and inspirational labs exist in many highly developed countries. In Western Europe, MindLab (Denmark) and The Behavioural Insights Team (UK) push their governments to re-imagine public services. In Asia, the Innovation Bureau in Seoul, South Korea, co-designs better services with citizens.

Migration not infrequently gets a bad press, especially in times of recession. This report seeks to broaden and rebalance perceptions of migration to reflect a complex and highly variable reality. This report applyies a human development approach to the study of migration. It discusses who migrants are, where they come from and go to, and...

The report provides a stark account of the threat posed by global warming. It argues that the world is drifting towards a "tipping point" that could lock the world’s poorest countries and their poorest citizens in a downward spiral, leaving hundreds of millions facing malnutrition, water scarcity, ecological threats, and a loss of livelihoods. The...

This report details the successful deployment of free and open source software in projects in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America. Each case study describes the reason for choosing to use this software and discusses the development, implementation and impact of applications. The benefits obtained and challenges encountered, as well as any valuable lessons learned...