This European Public Sector Information Platform topic report focuses on the question of how improved access to and analysis of data can help increase transparency, accountability and effectiveness in development aid and development co-‐operation. Development aid and co-‐operation is a complex issue and subject to multiple in-‐depth studies and research. This topic report focuses on… Read More Open Data in Development Aid
The World Bank’s Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources. http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog Search The World Bank’s Open Data Catalog from here: http://www.weitzenegger.de/content/?page_id=8891
Through the site at http://www.devinfo.org, visitors can download the DevInfo Initiative Response to Busan document, explore ways DevInfo technologies contribute to specific Busan objectives, and download details on DevInfo technology for aid coordination. The site also invites aid effectiveness specialists, private sector development partners, policy and decision makers, M&E specialists, and other development partners to… Read More Using DevInfo Technology to Support Aid Effectiveness
GSDRC: display. What are the potential benefits of aid transparency? What information is needed and how could donors make this more accessible? Survey results indicate that improved transparency of aid information would contribute to faster poverty reduction by making aid more effective and accountable. Users of aid information need more accessible, detailed, timely, and consistent… Read More Better Information, Better Aid | AidInfo
International Aid Transparency Standard Finalised | Publish What You Fund. After two years of negotiating, the 18 donors of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) agreed on 9th February the final details of a new global standard for publishing aid information. With this format in place that will make aid information internationally comparable, more information… Read More International Aid Transparency Standard Finalised | Publish What You Fund
Monitoring & Evaluation & Learning 