About Us
The Advisory Gender Data Hub Initiative is strengthening Civil Society Organisations to produce and use Citizen Generated Data for inclusive policy, accountability, and development
Our Vision
Our Values
Our Mission
Our Objectives
The Advisory Gender Data Hub Initiative is a civil society-focused initiative that supports the production, management, and use of Citizen Generated Data.
Citizen Generated Data is information that citizens or community members voluntarily contribute to reflect their lived realities, monitor issues, improve service delivery, and influence decision-making. It helps communities provide evidence on matters such as gender-based violence, education, health services, corruption, public accountability, environmental change, road damage, market prices, and service delivery gaps.
Many Civil Society Organisations already collect valuable community-level data. However, this data is often fragmented, inconsistent, poorly documented, or not aligned with official data systems and policy processes. As a result, important community evidence may not be used in planning, budgeting, service delivery, or accountability.
AGDHI exists to close this gap.
We build the capacity of CSOs to collect high-quality data, apply ethical data practices, use common standards, analyze evidence, produce policy-ready reports, and engage decision-makers. Through the Gender Research and Data Hub, AGDHI also supports a shared platform where CGD tools, datasets, reports, policies, and principles can be published and used by CSOs, government, researchers, and development partners.
Our work ensures that community voices are not only heard, but transformed into credible evidence for action.
The Challenge we address
Civil Society Organisations generate important community-level data, but much of it remains underused. Many CSOs collect data without common standards, clear metadata, consistent methodology, or strong systems for quality assurance and analysis.
This makes it difficult for citizen evidence to be trusted, compared, integrated, or used in policy processes.
At the same time, official statistics and traditional data sources may not always capture real-time, hyper-local community experiences. Citizen Generated Data helps fill these gaps by providing granular insights into issues affecting people’s daily lives.
AGDHI helps CSOs strengthen their data systems so that community evidence becomes credible, ethical, policy-ready, and useful for decision-making.
Our Solution
AGDHI strengthens the full Citizen Generated Data journey — from community data collection to policy influence.
We support CSOs to collect data ethically, improve data quality, organize datasets, apply common standards, analyze trends, produce evidence products, and engage decision-makers.
Through the Gender DataHub, AGDHI provides a pathway for fragmented citizen data to become trusted, policy-ready information. The platform supports data governance, analytics, aggregation, reporting, and publication of CGD tools, datasets, policies, and evidence products.
Let’s Strengthen Citizen Data Together
Join us to support community-driven evidence, ethical data governance, and stronger policy engagement across Uganda and Africa..