IIBD works through three programs operating at the same level. Each applies data accountability to a different part of public decision-making, and each is home to focused initiatives.
These programs deliver across IIBD's two focus areas, so our public programs and our governance record describe the same work.
Reviews the data, rules, eligibility systems, and automated processes behind public decisions — and identifies where people are excluded, misclassified, screened out, or left without a way to challenge an outcome.
Helps community organizations collect, interpret, and use evidence without reproducing extractive or exclusionary practices — so data strengthens their work instead of burdening it.
A regional evidence brief pairing quantitative economic data with a systems-level analysis of exclusion — supporting a clearer understanding of economic exclusion and its public-policy implications, with recommendations for governments, employers, unions, and funders.
Read the reportInclusive curriculum and facilitator resources designed to strengthen rights-based education for children, youth, girls, and women.
View the toolkitStrategy and learning work translating complex, multi-country program activity into outcomes, assumptions, and accountability.
View the synthesisCapacity-building work supporting Black-mandated organizations to use evidence for funding, planning, and impact — a live instance of the Community Data Innovation Lab model.
About the initiativeExamines how data systems affect specific areas — employment, housing, benefits, infrastructure, and services — especially where existing data misses lived experience.
Thirteen working papers on public investment, ownership, and community wealth — from the design of public investment and procurement to financing, measurement, and the digital economy.
Explore the series →An interactive map of how core housing need outruns subsidized supply across all 41 census metropolitan areas — the five widest gaps flagged in coral.