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Practical, step-by-step guides for putting AI to work in development settings — starting with the tools on OASIS.

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ExplAIners: AI 101
Guide · Series

ExplAIners: AI 101

AI basicsAvailableBeginner

New to AI? Five short, plain-language explainers on language models, chatbots, agentic AI, open weight models and sovereign AI: what each one is, why it matters for development, and where it's already being used.

EvalExplorer: unlocking evidence from evaluation reports
Guide

Getting started with EvalExplorer

EvalExplorerAvailableBeginner

A walkthrough from your first search to building a portfolio synthesis — how to ask good questions, follow the evidence back to source, and pull lessons across many reports.

DevExplorer: AI-assisted programme analysis
Guide

Searching the IATI dataset with DevExplorer

DevExplorerAvailableIntermediate

How to phrase questions, narrow filters, and read the results well — so you get from a broad question to a defensible answer across the IATI activity data.

OASIS
Guide

Adding your tool to OASIS

ContributingAvailableIntermediate

We host free and open source tools built for the development sector. We can put your code on our GitHub, talk about hosting the full tool, or link to where it lives, then write a case study and reach out to the people most likely to use it.