Metrics and Data for Self-Reliance: Evidence from Honduras
How are countries, Missions, donors, implementing partners and local actors using metrics and data to understand progress toward self-reliance?
This brief explores metrics and data from the perspective of the decision-making of public and private stakeholders in Honduras and their journey to self-reliance contributing evidence and learning from the USAID/Honduras Transforming Market Systems (TMS) Activity to JSR Learning Question #3:
How are countries, Missions, donors, implementing partners and local actors using metrics and data to understand progress toward self-reliance? How are they applying this understanding?
Data and metrics are a shared need offering significant co-creation opportunities for USAID activities, with a potential to leverage public and private sector funding and to address some of the common challenges that affect self-reliance, as reported by Honduran stakeholders:
Paving the way for more market-based solutions for metrics and data can strengthen the ability of the local system to solve its current and future development challenges. The brief offers several tactical areas for having a systemic affect on data and metrics:
- Bridging silos to support coordinated action in data and metrics initiatives
- Integrating data into decision-making through advocacy and communication channels
- Building trust and quality and objectivity through independent research institutions
Report by: Dun Grover