MENA Open Data & Evidence Lab
Projects

Every meaningful project gets an inspectable research record.

Research question, status, coverage, methods, outputs, validation state and known limitations belong on the project page before a polished finding does.

Active pilot · release candidate

MENA Economic Narrative & Market Stress Observatory

Research question. How can market and economic stress across MENA be monitored using reproducible, versioned public information without losing publication timing, revisions or source lineage?

STATUS
v0.3.0-rc1

COVERAGE
48 geography-month rows
METHODS
Official-source extraction
Release-date tracking
Revision/provenance logging
OUTPUTS
Dataset
Methods record
Code
Source links
External-validation boundary. The Lab reports two independent reproductions and two to three external methods reviewers institution-wide. A particular reproduction or reviewer is attached to this project publicly only when an attributable mapping exists. Known limitations: release-candidate state, incomplete public external-validation mapping, pilot coverage.
Live public preview

MENA Funding & Procurement Intelligence

Research question. How can official procurement records be normalized into auditable regional evidence about awards, buyers, suppliers and opportunity pipelines without obscuring source coverage?

STATUS
Public preview

COVERAGE
11,799 normalized awards
METHODS
Official structured sources
Normalization
Schema validation
QA
OUTPUTS
Dataset
Source manifest
QA report
Intelligence brief
Known limitations. Current headline count uses the documented World Bank structured-source perimeter; UNGM, EU and GIZ are not included. Public-preview state is not a census claim.
Collection in progress

MENA Firm AI Adoption and Labor Adjustment

Research question. What source-observable evidence links firm technology adoption to changes in employment, and how much of that evidence survives independent second coding?

STATUS
collection-alpha

COVERAGE
176 / 400 firm-years
METHODS
Firm disclosure coding
Saved source evidence
Hash-linked records
OUTPUTS
Firm dataset
Evidence brief pathway
Second-coding record
Known limitations. Collection is incomplete; missingness and cross-firm comparability remain active constraints. Institutional reviewer/reproduction totals are not automatically project-level validation.
Public prototype

MENA Evidence Terminal

Research question. What minimum machine-readable record lets an economic value remain traceable across entity, period, release time, vintage, revision, source, retrieval, transformation, hash, code commit, license and validation state?

STATUS
Prototype / specification
METHODS
Data contracts
Provenance schema
Version control
OUTPUTS
Search interface
Specification
Required-field schema
Scheduled record

Workshop 001 — Reproducing an Economics Paper from Raw Data

Research question. What practical workflow lets a researcher move from raw source material to a clean, documented and reproducible empirical result?

FORMAT
90 minutes
METHODS
Guided reproduction
Notebook workflow
Exercise + answer key
OUTPUTS
Slides
Notebook
Exercise
Answer key

Project anatomy

research question · status · coverage · methods · outputs · validation state · known limitations · data · code · source register · revision/correction path

Project-state rule

Specification, collection, release candidate and live are different states. A project page may exist before a final research finding exists; the page must make that boundary visible.

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