Increasing Data Utilization through USAID Data Portals

Data is a critical input for many types of decisions at USAID. It is also key for communicating to stakeholders, such as host country counterparts, other USG colleagues and the public at large. USAID goes to great lengths to ensure that data collected is used, whether to inform activity implementation, make strategy adjustments in mission portfolio reviews, in headquarters-based sector reviews and processes, in annual reporting to Congress, or for potential reanalysis later by USAID staff or members of the public.

Data is a critical input for many types of decisions at USAID. It is also key for communicating to stakeholders, such as host country counterparts, other USG colleagues and the public at large. USAID goes to great lengths to ensure that data collected is used, whether to inform activity implementation, make strategy adjustments in mission portfolio reviews, in headquarters-based sector reviews and processes, in annual reporting to Congress, or for potential reanalysis later by USAID staff or members of the public.

USAID Data Services provides a broad portfolio of products and services specifically designed to help USAID staff and partners improve development outcomes through the use of data and information.  AidScape is USAID’s public-facing resource and consolidated home for data portals that  serve as a central source for U.S. foreign assistance data, international socioeconomic data, and data-driven analysis in support of USAID goals. 

See a list of the main data portals below and visit AidScape to learn more.

• ForeignAssistance.gov
• Development Experience Clearinghouse
• Development Cooperation Landscape
• Development Data Library
• International Data & Economic Analysis
• Women's Economic Empowerment and Equality Dashboard
• Dollars to Results
• Trade Capacity Building
• Microenterprise Results Reporting