Policy Analysis

Jacob Sims

Associate Director, Sustainable Development Intelligence

Jacob worked as a Program Manager, Senior Program Manager, and Associate Director of the Sustainable Development Intelligence program from 2015-2019.

jsims@aiddata.org

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Summary

Jacob is Associate Director of the Sustainable Development Intelligence program at AidData. He previously led human rights abuse tracking and reporting programs in northern Myanmar and co-founded an international development organization in eastern Uganda. He has also directed private-sector international business development into European and Latin American markets. Jacob holds a dual MS in International Development and Economic History from The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Education

Background

July 11, 2019

Getting on target: A new approach for tracking financing to the SDGs

We tracked over $44 billion in donor financing to the SDGs in four countries, using an updated methodology for estimating SDG-related financing.

March 18, 2019

Cutting across contexts: Better evidence to link the SDGs with national planning

Political will to localize the SDGs is growing. But decision-makers need a rigorous and replicable way to link the global goals to local contexts.

March 13, 2018

Minding the gap in data on migrant, refugee and trafficked children

Understanding what data is available about children on the move will help decision-makers better direct resources to them.

March 6, 2018

Data to fight disease: A new partnership to improve HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment data in Zambia

We’re partnering with Zambia’s National AIDS Council to build new tools to sift through reams of official data on HIV/AIDS, and apply it for better outcomes.

December 4, 2017

Strengthening Côte d’Ivoire’s health sector with open data

Researchers from AidData will travel to Côte d’Ivoire to lead development of a USAID-funded geospatial data center.

June 1, 2016

Tracking investment in disability inclusive development

How do we ensure people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are included in the post-2015 development agenda?

Profile

DREAMS Innovation Challenge: Applying data to increase impact of HIV/AIDS Prevention for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Uganda

Emilie Efronson, Jacob Sims, Stephen Mugabe, and Abel Muzoora

2018-11-30

Policy Report

Ties That Bind: Quantifying China's public diplomacy and its "good neighbor" effect

Samantha Custer, Brooke Russell, Matthew DiLorenzo, Mengfan Cheng, Siddhartha Ghose, Jacob Sims, Jennifer Turner, Harsh Desai

2018-06-27

Policy Report

Realizing Agenda 2030: Will donor dollars and country priorities align with global goals?

Tanya Sethi, Samantha Custer, Jennifer Turner, Jacob Sims, Matthew DiLorenzo, Rebecca Latourell

2017-11-06

Policy Report

Avoiding Data Graveyards: Insights from Data Producers & Users in Three Countries

Samantha Custer and Tanya Sethi, Eds.

2017-04-01

Policy Brief

Financing the SDGs in Colombia

AidData

2017-03-01

Journal Article

No One Left Behind: A review of social protection and disability at the World Bank

Disability and the Global South

Valerie L. Karr, Ashley van Edema, Jacob Sims, Callie Brusegaard

2017-01-01

Journal Article

No one left behind: a review of disability inclusive development efforts at the World Bank

Knowledge Management for Development Journal

Valerie L. Karr, Jacob Sims, Callie Brusegaard, Ashley Coates

2016-12-01