This USAID-commissioned independent evaluation examines the impact of PetaBencana.id (Indonesia) and MapaKalamidad.ph (Philippines), two platforms developed, run and maintained by the Disaster Map Foundation since 2017.
A guidebook developed for the Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited to navigate and use the public grievances analysis dashboard.
Sample weekly analysis of public grievances prepared for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation officials to identify service delivery priorities and track issues.
Written after the alleged CoWIN data breach in June 2023, exploring how data security should be integral to platform design, not an afterthought.
This report analyses three years of ward committee meeting minutes from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, examining current practices against principles of good governance.
A catalogue of maps showing the availability and quality of social infrastructure—schools, hospitals, Anganwadi Centres, open spaces—across Ahmedabad, designed to help identify priority areas for resource allocation in health and education.
An examination of how state governments addressed Mid-Day Meal distribution when schools shut during the COVID-19 lockdown.
This policy brief analyses the spatial distribution, availability, and quality of 1500+ Anganwadi Centres across Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
Ahmedabad Smart City collects data on thousands of public grievances weekly — from clogged drains and broken streetlights to waste collection delays and water quality issues. Yet this data was sitting largely unused, with senior officials lacking visibility into ward-level patterns. We worked with this grievance data to generate weekly actionable insights at ward and zone levels, helping municipal officials identify infrastructure hotspots and prioritise responses across the city.
When India went into lockdown in March 2020, schools were temporarily closed and mid-day meal programs stopped — affecting 11.6 crore children who depend on these meals for their nutritional needs. The Supreme Court directed states to formulate plans for providing meals during the pandemic. We conducted a systematic study across 13 states to understand how state governments responded, analysing the guidelines, orders, and measures they announced between March and September 2020.
Ward councillors are our most local elected representatives in urban areas, yet we know remarkably little about how they work. We embarked on a three-year participatory action-research project with ward councillors in Ahmedabad to understand how they access information and make decisions in their wards. We identified two kinds of information gaps – Knowledge about their work, and Information needed to do this work. Working closely with councillors, we co-created practical tools and resources to support their work — from handbooks and budget analyses to ward profiles and educational videos.
What does it mean for a citizen disaster reporting platform to run for a decade? How do you measure impact — not just in numbers, but in the small and big ways it transforms disaster response? With these questions, we embarked on a qualitative assessment of two citizen disaster reporting platforms — PetaBencana in Indonesia and MapaKalamidad in the Philippines. Little did we know about the stories of transformation we would uncover: from panic to agency, from helplessness to empowerment. It was a double-thank-you moment — for me, it was deeply moving; for the team, it was reassurance to believe in what they were doing.
A quick reference guide to child-related schemes for councillors responding to constituent requests, contributing to child social protection efforts.
This policy brief draws on 150+ RTI requests and field visits to ward, zone, and central offices of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, part of a larger project on understanding ward councillors’ information needs.
A resource to aid councillors understand their roles, responsibilities, and duties—making official reference documents more accessible and filling gaps in existing materials.
A catalogue of maps showing public amenities at city- and ward-level to facilitate better service provision.
This report analyses how ward councillors of AhmedaThis policy brief draws on 150+ RTI requests and field visits to ward, zone, and central offices of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, part of a larger project on understanding ward councillors’ information needs.bad Municipal Corporation utilised their annual discretionary (’personal’) budgets. It is part of a larger study on councillors’ information needs.