Open Aid Partnership

Open Aid Partnershipvisualizes the

sub-national location of donor-financed projects

Bjorn-Soren Giglerbgigler@worldbank.org

Achieving the MDGs- Geography Matters!

Subnationally, high concentration of

poverty in the west

Concentration of WB-financed operations

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

Maps.worldbank.org

• All Bank-financed projects are mapped

• Maps for all 142 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 1,600 active Bank projects

What we have done so far:Mapping for Results

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Regions Countries

Sectors Projects

Mapping at Various Levels

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Where does the WB target its operations?

Are health projects in areas with the highest infant mortality?

Multi-Sectorial Analysis

Project Level

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

Local Open Data is Key

Better targeting of schools based on needs

Institutionalize across the WB Group

Switch to map view to show the project locations on a map

of Africa.

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

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

How can we map our projects?

2) Country Mapping Platform

Enable governments to collect, make openly available and visualize data on development assistance, budgets and public service delivery

Poverty and WB projects WB and USAID projects

Public Expenditures Feedback Loop

Nepal Country Platform Pilot

3) Citizen Feedback Loops

• Build pilots to enable two-way information flows between citizens & governments

• Citizen generated data, i.e. CheckMySchool.org

Haiti Community-Based Reporting

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

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

We would like to hear from you !

Suggested Priority Countries

• Africa: DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

• Latin America: Bolivia, Peru• South Asia: Nepal, Sri Lanka• East Asia: Indonesia