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  1. Change Management Toolkit

    Change management is hard. We've developed a range of tools to help with the people-side of implementing DevResults. Principles and best practices Responsibilities matrix Permissions matrix Roadmap for data management Stakeholder buy-...
  2. IATI: Supported elements

    DevResults supports the export of activity and organization data in XML format according to the IATI Data Standard. Below is a list of the activity and organization elements currently available for export. Supporting additional IATI elements will be...
  3. IATI: Configure your site for IATI exports

    All of the world's major donors have agreed to publish their data using the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. Many now require that grantees and recipients report back to them in IATI format. DevResults supports one-click ...
  4. Dates in Excel

    Having trouble with dates? Excel stores dates behind the scenes as the number of days since 1 Jan 1900. For example, 31 Dec 2020 is 44196. DevResults is only capable of reading that number or producing that number. It doesn't matter how your dates...
  5. Bookmarks

    Bookmarking pages lets you easily find activities and indicators of interest to you on your dashboard. Bookmarking a single activity or indicator You can bookmark indicators and activities by clicking on the star in the top right of any activity p...
  6. Enable and Disable DevResults Features

    Organizations might want to disable some features of DevResults if they don't need those particular tools (or use other software to meet those needs) and want to simplify the DevResults user interface.  To do so, go to Administration > Settings ...
  7. Training Topics

    DevResults has a ton of cool features that go beyond entering indicator results and managing activities. Below, we've provided a comprehensive list of topics that a trained DevResults expert can do and explain. When we do a training with your team, ...
  8. Find and Merge Duplicate Locations

    Chances are that sometimes, you or other users accidentally create duplicates of existing locations--maybe a slight difference in how the location is spelled, or its coordinates, or maybe its code. Our  Merge Duplicate Locations tool will help you ...
  9. About KML Files

    KML files contain the geographic information that forms the Administrative Division shapes on your DevResults site. DevResults requires that data be associated with places (either points or areas) and geographic shapes are required to define the sco...
  10.  Video Tutorial: Create an Indicator

    Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Key points from the video Context At a minimum, defining an indicator requires identifying the data source, indicator type, number format, disaggregations (if applicable), geographic disaggregation, ...