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title: The Akvo blog | Design services (2)
description: Design services | Data journey content for NGOs and governments looking to unlock the power of data for sustainable change.  (2)
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# Design services (2)

<https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-to-conduct-data-research-for-your-programme-in-four-steps>

## [How to conduct data research for your programme in four steps](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-to-conduct-data-research-for-your-programme-in-four-steps)

- 17 April 2019

<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-results-monitoring-framework>

## [How to build a results monitoring framework](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/how-to-design-a-results-monitoring-framework)

- 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/why-you-need-a-data-journey-for-your-development-programme>

## [Why you need a data journey for your development programme](https://datajourney.akvo.org/blog/why-you-need-a-data-journey-for-your-development-programme)

- 14 March 2019

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##### Our expertise

- [Agriculture](https://akvo.org/agriculture/)
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- [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/).