Presentation by Bjorn- Soren Gigler on Opening Up Development: Can Open Development enhance the effectiveness, responsiveness and inclusiveness of development programs.

1. Innovations for Enhance Development
Effectiveness

2. Mapping For Results
Enhance Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Better Results
Soren Gigler
Innovation Practice
World Bank Institute
bgigler@worldbank.org

3. Poverty Reduction at the National Level

4. Achieving the MDGs- Geography Matters!
Subnationally, high
concentration of
poverty in the west

5. Human Development Index
UNDP

6. Sub-national Poverty Trends are critical

7. Number of World Bank-Financed Projects

8. Crowdsourcing has changed disaster relief

9. Mapping
for Results
Results data:
available for
the first time
Transparency:
Access to
Information
and Open Data
Technology:
geo-coding,
visualizations
Leveraging Innovations for Enhanced
Results

10. Main Objectives
• Enhance Monitoring of Results: Better monitor,
track and report results
• Improve Transparency and Social Accountability:
increase transparency through Open Data on aid
flows and public service delivery
• Establish Feedback Loop: Empower citizens and
CSOs to provide direct feedback on project
outcomes
Increase Aid Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Better Results

11. National: Where do we target our projects?

12. Are health projects in areas with the highest infant
mortality?

13. Multi-Sectorial Analysis

14. Project Level Approach
Benefits
- Target activities to regions with
most need
- Promote synergies between
components (Electrification and
Telecomms)
- Verify that services were
provided
- Monitor project results and
impact
- Transparency and social
accountability
Bolivia: Decentralized Infrastructure for Rural Transformation
Project

15. Local Open Data is Key
Better targeting of schools based on needs

16. Challenges
• Lack of Access to Data
• Limited Resources and Budget
• Small Core Team
• Concerns about enhanced
transparency

17. October 2010
Bolivia – Haiti – Philippines – Kenya

18. December 2010
China

19. April 2011
All IDA

20. September 2011
All IBRD – IDA

21. Institutionalize across the WB Group
Switch to map view to show the
project locations on a map of
Africa.

22. Results
• Maps for all 143 IBRD and IDA countries developed
• More than 30,000 project locations mapped
combined with sub-national MDG indictors (poverty,
infant mortality, malnutrition)
• Visualized geographic locations for 2,500 active Bank
projects
• Institutionalized Geo-coding of all WB operations
• Open Aid Pilots for Malawi and Nepal

23. Poverty and WB projects WB and USAID projects
Public Expenditures Feedback Loop
Nepal Country Platform Pilot

24. Poverty Alleviation Fund

25. More Local: Nepal Health Centers
Data available
Number of districts 75
Total observations 4,161
Mapping
Health center
location at VDC
Source Bert
Mismatched 62 VDCs

26. Open Aid Partnership
• Open Aid Map to show
locations of donor
activities
• Country Platforms for
open geographic data of
public service delivery
• Citizen Feedback
• Capacity Building for civil
society and citizens

27. maps.worldbank.org