Gatete8/Gender-data-discovery-platform

GDDP is an R Shiny discovery engine that organizes Rwanda’s gender-relevant national survey metadata into an intelligent, searchable catalogue. With smart search, trust signals, and dashboards, it helps advocates, researchers, and policymakers quickly find credible evidence for gender-responsive decisions. # Gender Data Discovery Platform (GDDP) R Shiny application for discovering and exploring gender-related national survey metadata from Rwanda (NISR catalog), with search, dashboards, and an optional AI-assisted overview. **Live demo:** bugingo.shinyapps.io --- ## Overview GDDP helps civil society, advocates, researchers, and journalists find **gender-relevant survey data** in one place: full-text search over catalog metadata, filters (year, series, quality, gender relevance), interactive dashboards, and a guided **Data Catalogue** flow to preview and export selections. Developed for the GIZ Gender Data Resources Discovery Hackathon 2026 (FAST program — Feminism in Action for Structural Transformation). --- ## Problem statement Rwanda produces a large volume of **gender-disaggregated and gender-relevant data** every year through national surveys and related products, but that evidence is still **hard to discover and use** for the people who depend on it most—civil society organisations, advocates, journalists, and researchers. In practice, users routinely face: - **Fragmented access** — metadata and files are spread across catalogues and formats, with no single place to search across studies. - **Heavy narrative and PDF outputs** — findings are difficult to scan, compare, or reuse in advocacy workflows. - **Weak signals on fit and quality** — it is unclear which surveys best match a topic or how complete the documentation is. - **Pressure on time** — advocacy and policy cycles move faster than manual catalogue browsing allows. GDDP is built to **reduce friction** in finding trustworthy, relevant survey data so evidence can reach decisions sooner. --- ## Features - **Data Discovery** — Weighted full-text search (multi-word, phrases, exclusions, OR groups, year hints), relevance scores, and rich study detail views. - **AI overview** (optional) — OpenAI GPT-4o suggests top studies for a que …