Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Innovation is a process of failure and learning from failure. The same is true in development cooperation.
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How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it?Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank Institute lays out three guidelines to help relief efforts make the most impact -- while curbing corruption. One key: connecting the players who are working to change broken systems with the data they need. Delete the scoop?
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IATI has come a long way from the political commitment at the third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in 2008, through to its launch in 2009, to the tipping point in 2012 that saw the 100th donor publish information (now over 130 publishers). Delete the scoop?
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Eighteen months ago we watched President Kibaki launch the Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI) to broad acclaim and fanfare. All our initial expectations were very high. Some expected that Kenya’s vibrant ICT community would rapidly embrace open data, that there would be a rapid outpouring of open data sets from government agencies, and that open data would drive more informed development decision making. Delete the scoop?
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From tracking World Bank projects to Twitter conversations with Rwanda's health minister, technology is driving innovation. Social media and mobile technologies offer a wide range of benefits for people working in development: a potentially cheap and efficient way to link citizens with their governments, the chance to monitor real-time progress on projects, and the ability to connect people from remote parts of the world to share experiences and teach best practice. Delete the scoop?
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Christmas came early yesterday for anyone interested in seeing more effective and accountable aid, with an announcement from DFID which has raised the bar for aid transparency.At an event in London last night, hosted by BOND and Publish What You Fund, the British Secretary of State, Justine Greening delivered a keynote speech which included (by my count) six key steps forward on aid transparency and accountability. Delete the scoop?
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The UNDP just launched open.undp.org. The site details information on their 6,000+ projects in 177 countries and territories worldwide and lets you search and browse by location, funding source, and focus areas. Delete the scoop?
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Transparency is intended to make aid spending more efficient, but trying to implement a one-size-fits-all approach could negatively impact the work of many NGOs...
The logframes – or logical frameworks – that DfID and others require of organisations that they fund, also come in for criticism. As the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency has said: , "Although the logical framework has become universally known, it is far from universally liked." Rabinowitz has also heard of logframes being used in, "quite rigid and formal ways ... whereas probably the most effective aid interventions are ones that are flexible, nimble, constantly learning about context and adapting to it." Delete the scoop?
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It’s been nearly one year since world leaders and more than 3,000 people came together in Busan, South Korea to map out a new way forward on development cooperation. Amid much fanfare, a sweeping agreement was signed by countries that bound together traditional providers of development aid, like the United States and Germany, and new actors – like Brazil and China – in the pursuit of making aid flows more effective for the people that need it the most: the poor. Transparency and accountability were put forward among the shared principles to deliver on these commitments. Delete the scoop?
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How transparent is world aid? A new ranking puts the UK's DFiD top - with USAID languishing far behind. Aid is becoming more transparent, but progress is slow and uneven. This report finds that aid can be made much more transparent without great difficulty, when political commitment is translated into effective implementation. Transparent aid means information being shared openly in a timely, comprehensive, comparable and accessible way Delete the scoop?
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The British prime minister wants us to stop talking about the quantity of aid we give, and "start talking about what I call the 'golden thread', which is you only get real long-term development through aid if there is also a golden thread of stable government, lack of corruption, human rights, the rule of law, transparent information". Delete the scoop?
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Follow-up to high-level forum identifies key areas including transparency and untied aid, but commitment of emerging Bric donors unclear Delete the scoop?
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Jay Naidoo on how to engage citizens in governance and strengthen civil society through open data. What we need is the political will to co-create the tools with citizens and civil society, and to harness the expertise and technology of the marketplace to deliver the services to which our citizens have a right. Delete the scoop?
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Aid is a precious resource, but to get the most out of it we need more and better aid information. Working with organisations from around the world, we call on donors to publish what they fund. Delete the scoop?
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Official aid donors are also getting in on the act. The Mapping for Results initiative spearheaded by the World Bank Institute and Development Gateway aims to increase accountability by making transparent exactly where the Bank’s money is supposed to be going, and why. As my colleague Owen Barder recently noted, DfID has recently committed to “publishing feedback from those directly affected by aid,” and it recently hosted a meeting together with the Omidyar Network on how technology might enable such feedback. Progressive government agencies are taking the lead in some cases. The Philippines Department of Education and the Affiliated Network of Social Accountability (ANSA) launched CheckMySchool.org to help monitor school resources and allow parents, educators, and students to note when books were missing and when toilets needed to be fixed, substantially reducing the time it takes to address these problems. Delete the scoop?
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Prouver notre impact est-il devenu une obsession ?
Le 4 décembre dernier, une discussion passionnante a animé les conversations d'un petit monde de communicateurs et de chercheurs (parfois les 2), en direct, à la London School of Economics et sur les réseaux sociaux : The Future of Academic Impacts. Les débats (à retrouver sur Twitter, #LSEImpact) marquaient la fin d'un projet de 3 ans examinant la nature et la mesure de l'impact de la recherche universitaire en sciences sociales sur le gouvernement et l'élaboration de la politique, les affaires, l'industrie et la société civile. "It's time to put down the Impact voodoo doll" s'est exclamé un intervenant. D'accord, l'aide internationale n'est pas la recherche. Pourtant, la même question taraude l'esprit des académiques et des acteurs du développement: comment montrer le mieux possible l'impact de nos interventions (si nous voulons être assurés de garder - à défaut d'augmenter - notre financement)?
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Marie-Christine Boeve, coordinatrice de la communication à la CTB, fait le point sur les enjeux de la communication sur les résultats de développement. Delete the scoop?
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Which country is most corrupt? North Korea is still officially considered the world's most corrupt country, along with Somalia and Afghanistan. But why has the US gone up six places and the UK's score worsened? Delete the scoop?
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BRITAIN'S Department for International Development (DfID) is widely regarded as a trend-setter in the aid business. Under Andrew Mitchell, the agency tightened spending, cut the number of countries receiving aid and ceased funding United Nations agencies for housing and economic development that it determined were not delivering. Now its new head, Justine Greening, wants to make the country's aid-giving more transparent. This should make it more effective. But Ms Greening's efforts may also end up embarrassing both the department and the recipients of its aid. Delete the scoop?
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But, what was perhaps most exciting for us, as ‘users’ of IATI data, was that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) became the first country to use IATI as a system to manage the inflow of aid information coming from its development partners into their aid management unit in the Ministry of Planning. IATI data from the UK’s Department of International Development (DfID), The Global Fund and GAVI (the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) is now being exchanged automatically. Delete the scoop?
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Many of you ask what the most popular resources on the open data sites are. I can usually offer a rough answer, but I thought I'd take a moment to respond to the question properly. Delete the scoop?
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Belgium has not signed IATI or joined OGP. It has committed to implement the Busan common standard. Belgium scored 42%, but dropped considerably in rank from the 2011 Index due to progress made by other donors. Belgium did not score on several indicators that it scored on in 2011, such as their forward budgets at the country level, which have not been updated, though this is not reflected in the overall score as it performed well on the newly added indicators. Most information is found in an ODA database in English, French and Dutch that provides basic information. It could quite easily be converted to IATI-XML to create a good first publication. Delete the scoop?
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This week, for the first time, the World Bank began publishing Delete the scoop?
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