This presentation was presented by Aleem Walji and myself to the International Aid Transparency Initiative in March 2013 and provides an overview of how open aid data can enhance aid effectiveness and empower citizen to hold international donors and governments more accountable.
2. Why Open Aid and Why Maps Matter?
1. To enable visualization and accessibility of aid
information
2. To advance transparency in line with IATI
standards
3. To enable citizens and stakeholders to provide
direct feedback on project results
4. To improve efficiency of increasingly scarce aid
resources
3. OAP Objectives
1. Improve Aid Transparency: increase
transparency on aid flows and public
service delivery
2. Enhance Results: Better target, monitor,
and coordinate aid flows within countries
3. Establish Feedback Loop: Empower
citizens and CSOs to provide direct
feedback on project outcomes
Increase Aid Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Better Results
4. Key Componentsof Partnership
• Open Aid Map a common platform to show
locations of donor programs
• Country Platforms for open aid flows and public
expenditures
• Capacity Development to empower CSOs and
citizens to effectively use and generate data
• Citizen Feedback Loops to promote citizen
engagement in the delivery of public services
• Impact Evaluations to assess the impact of open
aid on development outcomes
5. 2,700+ projects
30,000+
locations
143 countries
13 countries
Discussion &
consensus on
the focus for
OAP
Endorsement
of OAP by 6
countries &
the World
Bank
Partner
Consul-
tation
Technical
Workshops (Finland,
Sweden)
Implementation in 4
countries (Bolivia,
Kenya, Nepal &
Tanzania)
Developing the geo-
coding standard
with IATI
Develop Open Aid
Map platform
HL4
Busan
Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia,
Finland, the Netherlands, Spain,
Sweden, the United Kingdom,
AfDB, Foundation Center,
ONE and InterAction
2012
Mapping
for
Results
History
7. Better Targeting of Projects
Select
infant
mortality as
base map
Select by
Sector:
Water and
Health
maps.worldbank.org/sa/india
8. • Over 540 projects
mapped
• Over 2,100 project
activities mapped
• Approximately
$5.3 billion
cumulative
commitments
covered for all AMP
projects ongoing as of
August 2011
2.0
Geo-coding
Open
Aid Map
Malawi’s Open Aid Map
Geo-coding of
projects of 27 donors
based on IATI
standard:
AfDB, AusAid,
BADEA, CIDA, CDC,
China, DfID, EU, FAO,
FICA, GTZ, ICEIDA,
IFAD, Irish Aid, Japan,
JICA, KfW, Kuwait
Fund, NORAD, OPEC
Fund, UNAIDS, UNDP,
UNHCR, UNIDO,
USAID, WFP, World
Bank
16. Initiatives
Partners
Next Steps
1. Broader endorsement by
donors and other partners
2. Build upon existing IATI
standards with geo-standards
3. Leverage as communications
tools to promote transparency
agenda
17. AMP 2.0AMP
Open
Aid Map
Implementation Partners:
Steve Davenport,
Christian Peratsakis,
Josh Powell
Aleem Walji
Director
Innovations Labs,
awalji@worldbank.org
Bjorn-Soren Gigler,
bgigler@worldbgank.org
Johannes Kiess,
Jkiess@worldbank.org
Contact Information
Mike Findley, Kate Weaver,
Justin Baker, Sam Barrett,
Sarah McDuff
1. It is important to understand the distribution of aid flows within a country in order to better target aid, however research on the distribution of aid has almost exclusively been conducted at the cross-country level. This is in large part due to the lack of data available on sub-national locations. By providing this information, this would enable decision-makers to know how to more effectively allocate development resources at the sub-national level. This will enable better targeting of aid efforts once underserved regions are more easily identified. 2. Understanding the precise location of development activities allows governments, donors and citizens to monitor progress and outcomes, and would encourage those at the local level to provide feedback on development projects in their area. 3. Enabling donors to see where other donor projects are located allows them to avoid duplicating efforts in the same region and increases the efficiency of development resources. 4. The volume of information provided by donors can make it difficult to make sense of the data. Being able to visualize the locations of all development activities on a map can enhance understanding of patterns in aid allocation. Making this information easier to understand will increase accessibility and use of the data among a wide group of stakeholders. 5. The IATI encourages development organizations to make information the “Who, Where, and How” of development projects publicly available and easy to use and understand. Crucial to this is the Where- geographical information on where organizations are operating within countries. This information allows governments, citizens and donors to gain a more comprehensive picture of donor activities within countries, thus enabling better decision-making.
This slides shows in the background infant mortality rates at the sub-national level in India. The Map shows thee location of WB-financed projects in the Water and Health sectorskey issues: 1) Are we targeting the areas with the largest needs?--- lagging States agenda 2) Muli-sectoral Analysis- Are we coordinating between sectors- Important Synergies between Health and Water, map however shows that water and health projects are concentrated in different States.