The document outlines the objectives and key components of the Open Aid Partnership, which aims to improve aid transparency, enhance results, and empower citizens through feedback mechanisms. It highlights the use of platforms like the Open Aid Map for visualizing donor projects and emphasizes capacity development for civil society organizations and citizens. Additionally, it discusses impact evaluations to measure the effectiveness of open aid initiatives and citizen engagement in governance.

1. Opening up Development
www.openaidmap.org
Soren Gigler
World Bank Institute, Innovation
bgigler@worldbank.org

2. Open Aid Partnership- Objectives
• Improve Aid Transparency: increase
transparency through Open Data on aid flows
and public service delivery
• Enhance Results: Better target, monitor, and
coordinate aid flows within countries
• Establish Feedback Loop: Empower citizens and
CSOs to provide direct feedback on project
outcomes
Increase Aid Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Better Results

3. Key Components of Partnership
• Open Aid Map a common platform to show
locations of donor programs
• Country Platforms for open aid flows and public
expenditures
• Citizen Feedback Loops to promote citizen
engagement in the delivery of public services
• Capacity Development to empower CSOs and
Citizens to effectively use and generate data
• Impact Evaluations to assess the impact of open aid
on development outcomes

4. 1) Open Aid
Map
• Geo-coding of
donor-financed
projects based on
IATI standard
• Joint Open Aid Map
for better aid
coordination
(AidData)
• Visualize projects of
27 donors combined
with poverty data

5. How can we map our projects?

6. 2) Country Mapping Platform
Enable governments to collect, make openly
available and visualize data on development
assistance, budgets and public service delivery

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

8. Haiti Community-
Based Reporting

9. 4) Capacity
Development
• Raise awareness among citizens about the power
of open data
• Strengthen Capacity of CSOs and Citizens to
effectively use and generate open data
• Engage, connect and empower communities to
act upon provided data
• Assist public service provider in receiving and
responding to citizen feedback

10. 5) Impact Evaluations
• Provide an objective basis for assessing
impact of Open Aid and Citizen Feedback Loops
• Use Randomized Controlled Trial and
Participatory Action Learning
• Document and disseminate the lessons learned
from evaluation findings

11. - H.E Hon. President Mwai Kibaki
8th July, 2011

12. Empowered Citizens

13. A Vision for Kenya 2030

14. The Dawn of a Digital Age

15. Civic minded hackers

16. On the Shoulder of Giants

17. The need for a Champion

18. Open Data Kenya

19. The Power of Open Data

20. Supportive Governance

21. More Open Data

22. Community Level Capacity

23. It’s just the start