GDC brings transparency to impact in global development through independent data, and opens the sector's key issues to discussion and learning for anyone.
We work on two connected fronts. The first is data and impact transparency. The sector still runs largely on self-reported PDFs and patchy country coverage, so it is hard to see who funds what, where, and with what impact. We are building the data that is missing: the GDC Impact Database and Development Impact Scores make impact comparable across the funders, managers and funds of development finance, and our EMDE country data covers the economies mainstream credit rating agencies often leave out.
The second is open discourse and education. Through short articles, a monthly briefing and a directory of the sector's organisations, we make the key issues in global development accessible to anyone, and create a space to question them openly, regardless of professional background.
The two reinforce each other: the data gives the discussion evidence, and the discussion makes the data understood and used. GDC also works with professionals and organisations directly, collaborating on research and other projects that create development impact.
To bring transparency to development impact through structured, independent data, and to make the sector's key issues open to discussion and understandable to anyone. The ultimate goal: a material impact on poverty reduction.
The GDC Impact Database, Development Impact Scores and EMDE country data bring structured, independent data to a sector that often runs on self-reported claims.
A space to spark critical, open discussion on the issues that matter in global development, from development finance to climate and trade.
Free, short content and a directory of the sector's organisations, giving anyone an easy way in to global development, its actors and its challenges.
Working with organisations, researchers and professionals across the sector on research and projects that tackle inequality, poverty and climate change.
A global development sector held to the outcomes it promises, where anyone, whatever their profession, education or expertise, can understand it, question it and play a part.
Global development concerns everyone, not just specialists — our content and tools are built for a broad audience, not a closed circle.
We work with organisations across the sector rather than around them — our data products exist to make collaboration easier, not to gatekeep it.
We build new tools where the sector currently has none — independent data products that didn't exist before GDC built them.