InterAction developed map geotagging food security projects around the world

InterAction has developed a map providing information about 791 projects involving 50 organanizations around the world. Below you could find a screenshot of the original map.

InterAction

Geocoding, further step towards effective development finance

Institutions participating in the AidData project developed in collaboration with the World Bank a new service to gather more precise information on aid projects implemented worldwide. Through this new search option, users can not only find the details of a particular project or check the amount of resources allocated in a certain country in a specific field, but also locate the areas of intervention and measure with more accuracy effectiveness, results and ratio of projects.
The project involved for a period of 6 weeks, a team of 13 people who geo-referenced the documentation of  the 1,216 active World Bank projects, made publicly available through the Open Data Initiative archive.
 The complete list of maps is accessible on the Mapping for results page. Further details on this geo-coding project  are on the AidData blog The First Trance. The dataset used in this project was built using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF and the ArcGIS Server technology from Esri (information found on the apps for development blog)

Map displaying the number of aid projects and
poverty conditions in Kenya's provinces

Another interesting project is the Haiti Aid Map initiative developed by InterAction, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center with funding from FedEx. The map provides detailed project-level information on the work being done by NGOs in Haiti.

Haiti Aid Map homepage

Geo-referencing for its capacities to ensure better information accessibility, coordination and accountability of donors and participation of recipient institutions is becoming a valuable knowledge organization tool to support the implementation of coherent policies for development.

AidData - Tracking Development Finance

The AidData database was  launched to the public last March 2010 in occasion of the Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference held at University College in Oxford,U.K..

The project combines together the data and experiences of two former initiatives: the PLAID project, established in 2003, a joint partnership between  the Brigham Young University and the College of William and Mary ( funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) and the AIDA initiative created by the Development Gateway Foundation.
The database is one of the most comprehensive sources of information on development projects. It provides information on interventions yet implemented since 1970 or currently under implementation.

The usage of innovative technologies ranging  from geocoding to crowd-sourcing and sector specific coding and visualization contributes to strengthen accountability of donor agencies and partner governments. AidData in collaboration with Uppsala University, has developed a comprehensive way to gather information on aid projects.Information on project locations is critical for determining whether aid is reaching areas of greatest need, as well as for avoiding duplication of effort within a country. Recent work includes the partnership with the World Bank Institute, where 1200 projects were geocoded using the AidData methods. further details on this initiative are available in a newer post.