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title: The Akvo blog | Anita van der Laan
description: Anita van der Laan is planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning specialist at Akvo. She has more than ten years of experience in facilitating the development and review of Theories of Change with organisations and partnerships in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
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    - [Climate](https://akvo.org/climate-data/)
- [Our work](https://akvo.org/our-work/)
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- About us 
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# Our blog

<https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-a-design-phase-will-help-you-improve-data-driven-decision-making>

## [How a design phase will help you improve data-driven decision making](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-a-design-phase-will-help-you-improve-data-driven-decision-making)

- 4 April 2019

<https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-to-design-a-theory-of-change>

## [How to design a Theory of Change](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-to-design-a-theory-of-change)

- 4 April 2019

<https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-to-conduct-a-context-analysis>

## [How to conduct a context analysis](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-to-conduct-a-context-analysis)

- 4 April 2019

<https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/creating-akvos-theory-of-change>

## [Creating Akvo’s Theory of Change](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/creating-akvos-theory-of-change)

- 13 June 2018

##### About

- [Meet our team](https://akvo.org/meet-our-team/)
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- [Media and press](https://akvo.org/media-and-press/)
- [Strategic partnerships and consortia](https://akvo.org/strategic-partnerships-and-consortia/)

##### Our regional hubs

- [Americas](https://akvo.org/americas/)
- [West Africa](https://akvo.org/west-africa/)
- [East Africa](https://akvo.org/east-africa/)
- [Asia Pacific](https://akvo.org/asia-pacific/)

##### Our services

- [Our approach and services](https://akvo.org/our-approach-and-services/)
- [Knowledge library](https://akvo.org/knowledge-library/)

##### Tech solutions

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- [Data platform status](https://akvo.statuspage.io/)
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##### General

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- [Our blog](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog)

##### Our expertise

- [Agriculture](https://akvo.org/agriculture/)
- [Water](https://akvo.org/water/)
- [Climate](https://akvo.org/climate/)

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We apply the principles of open source software, open content and open data to all of our work.

Find out [why and how](https://akvo.org/blog/open-data-content-and-software-at-akvo/).