Increasing the Transparency and Accessibility of Aid Data

Promoting the engagement with open data is vital in the aid and development sector. Transparency on what is being spent where, by whom and with what results is key to improve the efficiency of resource allocation, coordination of the response, and for donors to learn from one another’s interventions.

At the Open Data Company we developed the Aid Information Data Analytics (AIDA) platform, which enables the public, NGOs, research institutes, government and other parties that receive aid-related funding to produce, manage and analyse their data published according to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data standard. The IATI data standard (https://iatistandard.org/en/) is being used worldwide by many large multilateral donors like USAID, the EU and several UN organisations.

The AIDA platform (https://aida.tools/) uses open-source technology to aggregate and visualise data from over one million aid related published activities. This session will demonstrate how the use of innovative open-source data technologies can be applied to make aid data easier to understand, track and analyse, to enable organisations to fulfil their transparency obligations as well as plan for more effective aid activities.