patience-izere/GRB-Resource-Discovery-Challenge

# Data Discovery Rwanda(DD Rw) Portal 2026 ## Team Izere-Fabrice Data Discovery Rwanda(DD Rw) Portal 2026 **Built by:** Izere Marie Vincent Patience & Fabrice Hakuzimana **Event:** Gender Data Hackathon 2026 **Data Sources:** NISR (National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda), MIGEPROF (Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion) --- ## Table of Contents 1. Project Overview 2. User Persona & Pain Points 3. Platform Architecture & Data Logic 4. Setup & Installation 5. Key Workflows: Discovery, Evaluation & Utilization 6. Policy & Advocacy Scenario 7. Data Usage & Provenance 8. API Reference 9. Limitations & Next Steps 10. Judging Rubric Alignment --- ## 1. Project Overview ### What Is the GDRH? The **Data Discovery Rwanda(DD Rw) Portal** is an open-access web platform that centralises, validates, and surfaces Rwanda's gender-disaggregated statistical resources for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), policy analysts, researchers, and government planners. Rwanda produces a rich body of gender-relevant data — Demographic Health Surveys, Labour Force Surveys, EICV household surveys, Agricultural Household Surveys, and Population Censuses — yet this data remains scattered across institutional portals, locked in PDF downloads, and difficult to cross-reference. **The DD Rw Portal solves this by creating a single, searchable, quality-scored interface over the NISR microdata catalog and MIGEPROF policy data.** ### How It Improves Visibility and Usability for CSOs | Before The DD Rw Portal | After The DD Rw Portal | |---|---| | Analysts manually browse NISR's catalog page-by-page | Full-text + semantic search across 70+ validated studies | | Quality of metadata is unknown | Each study carries an automated quality score (0-100) with named flags | | Resources are buried in PDF archives | All attachments (questionnaires, reports, datasets) are linked and typed | | No geographic lens | District-level coverage heatmap shows data density across Rwanda's 30 districts | | Da …