Launch of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index
Watch the launch of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index.
Mapping empowerment – using giant datasets to track investments in women’s economic empowerment
In the run up to the launch of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index, Alex Farley-Kiwanuka explains the monumental effort undertaken by her team to combine four global datasets in order to track Women’s Economic Empowerment funding across three countries. Alex also shares why she feels the Aid Transparency Index is so important for maintaining and improving international funding data and making it useable for researchers like herself.
News roundup – How much aid goes to local organisations?
Our regular newsletter features updates on our work to track funding to local organisations, an announcement of which DFIs will feature in our new DFI Transparency Index, and insights into how Connected Development is working with community volunteers to follow the money for development projects using global aid data.
Which organisations will feature in our new DFI Transparency Index?
We have just commenced work on a new DFI Transparency Index, which will assess the transparency of some of the world’s leading bilateral and multilateral Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). This blog sets out the timeline and process, how this index differs from the Aid Transparency Index, and which DFIs we’ll be assessing and ranking.
Following the money: using data to track development spending in Nigeria
Hamzat Lawal discusses how Connected Development works with marginalised communities to track funding and monitor development projects. He reflects on whether international donors, and those inputting the aid data, know that teams of community volunteers are consuming and using the same data to ensure their projects are being implemented effectively.
The vital role transparency plays in accountability of nutrition financing
Richard Watts of Save the Children discusses how open data is being used to track aid to nutrition and hold donors accountable for their commitments. He explains that this is only possible due to continued improvements in the available aid data, but development partners could still do more to increase their transparency.