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The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is a global network of governments, NGOs, and businesses working together to strengthen innovative ways that data is used to address the world’s sustainable development efforts. The Global Partnership amplifies current efforts among its Partners and links Partners in new configurations in order to deploy quality data to see the sustainable development goals met. Funders of the Partnership include the Hewlett Foundation and IDRC. The Partnership launched in September 2015 on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.

The goal of the International Open Data Charter is to foster greater coherence and collaboration for the increased adoption and implementation of shared open data principles, standards, and good practices across sectors around the world. The Charter is a set of agreed-upon open data Principles, based on the G8 Open Data Charter, and officially launched on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 with funding from Omidyar Network, IDRC, and others.

The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) was (2025 sunset) a multi-stakeholder action network working to advance and institutionalize global norms and significant, continuous improvements on fiscal transparency, participation, and accountability in countries around the world. I started working on GIFT as part of Innovations for Scaling Impact in 2011, and in early 2014 became an independent consultant on GIFT, contracted through the International Budget Partnership, who is acting as the fiduciary host of GIFT, managing funds from the World Bank to support GIFT. GIFT has also received funding from the Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network, and Metanoia Fund.