Improving Lives Through Proven Solutions
For more than three decades, the Global Institute for Development Evidence (GIDE) has helped the world's leading development institutions turn evidence into measurable impact across the Global South.
Who we are
Since our founding in 1990, our commitment to development analytics and Results-Based Management (RBM) has never wavered — but our tools and methods have evolved to keep pace with global priorities. Today we combine rigorous evaluation with responsible, AI-aided technology to help our partners make faster, better-informed decisions in service of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Our approach: innovation meets precision
We advance digital, analytical, and AI-aided solutions alongside proven traditional methods to maximize the impact of development initiatives. Our work integrates artificial intelligence and ICT for monitoring and evaluation (ICT4M&E) — including digital photography and videography — giving decision-makers real-time insight, stronger data collection, and quantifiable results. Digital imagery bridges understanding, showing the difference between "before" and "after" more powerfully than text alone — reaching broader audiences, including those with limited literacy, and resonating emotionally.
Part of a Responsible AI ecosystem
GIDE is the institutional home of a growing Responsible AI ecosystem for development. Our technology and advisory affiliate, ScaleX Labs, builds the integrated AI platform that puts these capabilities directly into practitioners' hands — from AI-powered monitoring, evaluation, and learning, to tools that strengthen gender transformative results, funding, and professional capability. Together, GIDE and ScaleX Labs advance one conviction — AI must strengthen the development professionals of the Global South, never replace them.
Our approach: innovation meets precision
We advance digital, analytical, and AI-aided solutions alongside proven traditional methods to maximize the impact of development initiatives. Our work integrates artificial intelligence and ICT for monitoring and evaluation (ICT4M&E) — including digital photography and videography — giving decision-makers real-time insight, stronger data collection, and quantifiable results. Digital imagery bridges understanding, showing the difference between "before" and "after" more powerfully than text alone — reaching broader audiences, including those with limited literacy, and resonating emotionally.
Part of a Responsible AI ecosystem
GIDE is the institutional home of a growing Responsible AI ecosystem for development. Our technology and advisory affiliate, ScaleX Labs, builds the integrated AI platform that puts these capabilities directly into practitioners' hands — from AI-powered monitoring, evaluation, and learning, to tools that strengthen gender transformative results, funding, and professional capability. Together, GIDE and ScaleX Labs advance one conviction — AI must strengthen the development professionals of the Global South, never replace them.
Who we serve
We partner with multilateral development banks — including the African, Asian, Inter-American, and Islamic Development Banks, and the World Bank — alongside the United Nations, bilateral agencies, non-governmental and international organizations, and the private sector.
Real-time impact, deeper connections
By embracing these transformative tools, we don't just document change — we inspire it, fostering an evidence-backed, connected approach to improving lives.
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