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title: "Akvo ebook: How to turn data into action"
description: In this eBook, we will guide readers to overcome some of the most common challenges in going from insight to action, becoming data-driven with scarce resources, and ensuring data systems are built sustainably and with the end user in mind.
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## Ebook: How to turn data into action

#### A step-by-step guide to optimising impact in the development sector

So much data is collected in the development sector, but only a portion of it is actually used to drive decision making in policy, programmes, and practices, and contribute to sustainable and inclusive impact.

In this eBook, we will guide readers to overcome some of the most common challenges in going from insight to action, becoming data-driven with scarce resources, and ensuring data systems are built sustainably and with the end user in mind. This eBook demonstrates how investing in robust data skills, processes, and systems will help you become more effective and efficient in the long term and achieve impact, for all. This eBook will help you to:

- Design a data-driven project or programme
- Establish a strong data culture within your organisation
- Explore how ecosystems thinking can drive sector-wide impact

### Get free access to the eBook

##### About

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##### Our regional hubs

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##### Our expertise

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- [Water](https://akvo.org/water/)
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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/).