Australian Development Gateway

The Australian Development Gateway (ADG) strives to support members of the development community in their efforts to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region. The site has been created with participation from members of government, private, academia and non-government organisations. User feedback mechanisms have been incorporated to guide future directions of the site. The site is optimised for low bandwidth access to enable the widest participation throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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Search for Information by sector uses the Jakarta Lucene search engine. Below are some of the advanced search tips for this engine.

Plus (+) 

Precede all your search terms with a plus (+) symbol to perform an AND search.

  • +maternal +health will find all documents that contain both "maternal" and "health".
  • +maternal health will find all documents that contain "maternal" and possibly "health".
OR

If you do not specify an operator between search terms, OR will be used by default.

  • maternal health will find all documents that contain "maternal" or "health".
  • health OR maternal will provide the same results.
NOT

Precede your search term with a minus (-) symbol to exclude documents that contain that word, or alternatively, use the word NOT.

  • +maternal -health will find all documents that contain "maternal", but not "health".
  • maternal NOT health will provide the same results.
Grouping

Use parentheses to form sub-queries.

  • (supply OR sanitation) AND water will find all documents that contain "water" and either "supply" or "sanitation".
Phrases

Find a phrase by surrounding multiple words in quotes.

  • "water quality control" will find documents that contain those three words together in that order.
Wildcards

Match for words that contain 0 or more characters within or after the search term (note that wildcards cannot appear at the beginning of a search term).

  • * matches 0 or more characters of any kind.
  • ? matches 0 or 1 character of any kind.
  • te?t will find all documents that contain, for example, "test" and "text".
  • atmosp* will find all documents that contain those characters, e.g.  "atmosphere", "atmospheric", etc.
Fuzzy Search 

Follow your query with the tilde (~) symbol to find documents with words that are "similar" to a given search term.

  • dats~ will find documents that contain the keyword "data".
 

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