Putting Aid Data to Work: From better information to practical results
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Farzana Nawaz
AidData, the Robert
S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the World Bank Institute
are organising a conference on Putting Aid Data to Work: Using Better
Information to Get Better Results.
As the open data movement gains traction, governments and donors are
increasingly providing more and better data about development assistance. How
can different stakeholders make sense of all this information and use it to
improve the results of aid on the ground?
Please join us for a day-long conference exploring how open data and aid
transparency can be used to:
- Visualize and combine aid data with other kinds of development data,
- Track climate change finance and coordinate climate projects with work in other sectors, and
- Improve the impact of development aid through feedback loops and social monitoring.
The event introduces the adaptation aid work of the Strauss Center's
Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS), a collaborative
research program examining climate change, security, and development in Africa.
The event also marks the launch of AidData 2.0, as the AidData program moves out
of the "beta" phase and offers new tools for a wide range of stakeholders to
track and analyze global aid data.
AidData and CCAPS will present their work with the Government of Malawi, in
cooperation with the World Bank Institute, to pilot a robust aid tracking
initiative. This initiative represents the first-ever effort to track all active
aid across all donors within one country using dynamic geomaps.
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