The Open Aid Partnership aims to increase aid transparency and effectiveness by supporting countries to publish sub-national data on development programs. Launched in 2011 and hosted by the World Bank, the partnership works in countries like Kenya to build capacity for collecting, mapping and openly publishing development data according to international standards. This includes geocoding project locations and enhancing Kenya's national systems to spatially enable development data visualization and coordination. The goal is improved transparency, identification of needs and gaps, country ownership, and alignment of aid with development priorities.

1. Open Aid Partnership
and
World Bank Open Data
Elena Bertusi and Qiyang Xu
World Bank Group
Kenya, November 2014

2. Background
The Open Aid Partnership aims to increase
aid transparency and effectiveness.
In particular, the OAP supports countries to
collect, visualize and publish the sub-national locations of
donor-financed programs.

3. Background
• Launched in 2011, hosted by the World Bank Group
• Partners: Bolivia, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland,
Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, Sierra
Leone, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, as well as African
Development Bank, Development Gateway, the Foundation
Center, InterAction, ONE, Publish What You Fund, UN-Habitat,
USAID, and the World Bank Group.
• OAP currently implements activities in 5 partner countries:
Bolivia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal and Sierra Leone

4. Key Components
• Strengthen capacity of partner countries
to collect, curate, visualize, and publish development data
according to international aid reporting standards (IATI).
• Develop an Open Aid Map
to visualize the locations of development activities on a
common mapping platform.
• Build capacity of civil society, the media and
policymakers
to access, understand, use and give feedback on open
development data.

5. Transitioning from Donor- to
Country-Level Aid Mapping
Mapping all donors within a country can help to:
– Improve transparency and accountability
– Identify gaps between resources and needs
– Enhance country ownership
– Ensure aid allocation is aligned with country
development priorities
– Improve coordination of development
partners

6. Promoting Aid Transparency
at the Country Level
Kenya: Country-owned development data at the subnational level
http://www.openaidmap.org/

7. OAP Pilot in Kenya
Demand Side
Public ownership of open aid data
Support
Supply Side
The ‘opening’ of aid data
• Geocoding Workshop
• Spatial enhancement of the
e-ProMIS
• Open Data Bootcamp
• Open Data for Evidence-based
Policy Workshop
(planning)

8. OAP in Kenya
Geo-coding Project Activities
Project documents
Project data
Information

9. OAP in Kenya
System Enhancement for the Treasury
• Spatially enabling the national system for development
projects – to support visualization and project operations.
• by using location name, coordinates, county boundary…

10. OAP in Kenya
Better Data, Greater Transparency
• Development projects
• Development indicators
• Social infrastructures
• Budget and expenditure
• ……

11. Global Open Aid Map
To publish, aggregate and visualize data on aid flows from governments,
donors, foundations and NGOs across many countries for anyone to
access and share freely.

12. The World Bank Group
A vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing
countries around the world
Financial Products & Services
• Provides low-interest loans, interest-free credits, and grants to
developing countries
• Supports investments in such areas as education, health, public
administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector
development, agriculture, and environmental and natural
resource management
Innovative Knowledge Sharing
• Supports developing countries with policy advice, research and
analysis, and technical assistance
• Supports capacity building in the countries it serves

13. Overview of World Bank’s
Open Development
• Open Data (April 2010)
• Access to Information Policy (July 2010)
• Open Solutions, Open Tools (September 2010)
• Open Access Policy to Research, Knowledge (July
2012)
• Data Revolution (April 2014)

14. Detailed Development Project
Information in P&O Portal
http://www.worldbank.org/projects/search?lang=en&searchTer
m=&countrycode_exact=KE

15. Categorized Development Indicators
in World Bank Open Data Portal
http://data.worldbank.org/
http://data.worldbank.org/country/kenya

16. Mapping World Bank Development Indicators
http://maps.google.com/gallery/publisher?pub=World+Bank+Group&hl=en

17. From Global to Sub-national
GDP Growth
(annual %)
Sub-national
malnutrition
indicators
http://maps.google.com/gallery/publish
er?pub=World+Bank+Group&hl=en

18. Thank you for your attention!
Feedback? Questions?

19. http://www.openaidmap.org/
http://data.worldbank.org/
http://www.worldbank.org/projects