Thirty years. The same promises.
What global health organisations wrote in strategy documents
and what independent evaluations actually found.
The five commitments
they keep making
The rhetoric
and the record
01The promises made
A strategy document from the archive.
02What evaluations found
Every document by year. Strategy documents cluster in waves. Evaluations follow later, when they follow at all.
Every document
in the archive
Strategy Evaluation
Promise index
by organisation
| Organisation | Strategy | Evaluation | Promises | Most common type | Volume |
|---|
The data, visualised
How often each type of promise appears. Community ownership and context-sensitivity are the most repeated.
Strategy documents vastly outnumber evaluations in every organisation's archive. The gap is the argument.
Every document by year. Strategy documents cluster in waves. Evaluations follow years later, when they follow at all.
How this archive
is built
Every night, our tracking system searches for new documents, extracts text, identifies promises, cross-examines findings, and surfaces what is found. Here is the full chain, step by step.
Search
8 open-access databases scanned nightly: OpenAlex, CORE, PubMed, Europe PMC, Semantic Scholar, World Bank, ReliefWeb, WHO IRIS.
Extract
Full text pulled from PDFs and HTML pages. Up to 30 pages per document. Already-seen URLs are never re-processed.
Identify
Exact quotes are extracted where organisations make programmatic commitments across five tracked categories.
Challenge
A secondary review challenges each quote. Is this a real commitment or aspirational language? Scored 1–5. Below 3 is removed.
Archive
Surviving quotes, summaries, and illustrations enter the archive. Flagged for editorial review before displaying without the pending badge.
All quotes are exact extracts from source documents, not paraphrases. If something looks wrong, the source link is there.