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June 6, 2014

2014 Summer Fellows Help Communities Use Data for Smarter Development

Funded by the U.S. Global Development Lab, 21 AidData Summer Fellows are working in five countries this summer to create, visualize and analyze geocoded data on who is funding what, where and to what effect.

April 24, 2014

Biodiversity Conservation Aid: Who is Getting How Much and Why?

The findings of a recent study suggest that three central factors influence the kind of biodiversity aid a recipient country receives.

February 7, 2014

UNU-WIDER Working Paper on Ground-truthing of Aid Projects Released

The findings from the UNU-WIDER report indicate that, among the projects researchers could visit, there was broad agreement between the project data generated from TUFF and the ground-truthing data.

January 14, 2014

Pushing the Development Finance Envelope: AidData Improves Upon Its China Data

Employing these supplementary data collection methods, we were able to generate a more reliable picture of Chinese development finance in Africa by adding 114 new projects and updating 131 existing records in our database from 2000 to 2011.

January 10, 2014

AidData Research Consortium Seeks Answers to Big Development Questions with Granular Data

Leveraging subnational information about development finance activities – down to the province, district and street-corner level – the ARC will produce research to address pressing development questions in seven areas.

January 9, 2014

A Data Revolution for 2014: It Starts With Data, But Ends With Action-Inducing Insights

If data is to influence decision-making in how we allocate, coordinate and evaluate foreign aid, we need more than stand alone maps, charts and dashboards. We need to not only identify what interesting data patterns and trends exist, but also to answer why.

November 14, 2013

Impact Beyond the Numbers: Reflections on Year One of the AidData Center

With one year of implementation behind us, the AidData Center has created a strong foundation that will enable us to bring our big idea to scale in the coming years.

August 29, 2013

Nepali Organizations Use ArcGIS Training to Answer Development Questions

The five-day ArcGIS workshop was an important part of the AidData Center for Development Policy’s efforts to mobilize local demand among Nepali institutions to use geospatial data and tools to track, deliver and evaluate aid more effectively.

August 6, 2013

Beyond Access to Use: Building Local Stakeholder Capacity to Use Open Aid Data

Raising awareness among civil society organizations and research institutions as critical to ensuring that open aid information is not only publicly accessible, but is actually being used to promote effective development.

June 12, 2013

Environmental aid is going up and increasingly bilateral

While the overall increase in environmental aid is a positive trend, the increase in bilateral aid presents some consequences.

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