Elena Bertusi and Qiyang XuWorld Bank Group

Kenya, November 2014

Open Aid Partnershipand

World Bank Open Data

The Open Aid Partnership aims to increaseaid transparency and effectiveness.

Background

In particular, the OAP supports countries to collect, visualize and publish the sub-national locations of

donor-financed programs.

• Launched in 2011, hosted by the World Bank Group

• Partners: Bolivia, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland,Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, SierraLeone, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, as well as AfricanDevelopment Bank, Development Gateway, the FoundationCenter, InterAction, ONE, Publish What You Fund, UN-Habitat,USAID, and the World Bank Group.

• OAP currently implements activities in 5 partner countries:Bolivia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal and Sierra Leone

Background

• Strengthen capacity of partner countriesto collect, curate, visualize, and publish development data according to international aid reporting standards (IATI).

• Develop an Open Aid Mapto visualize the locations of development activities on a common mapping platform.

• Build capacity of civil society, the media and policymakersto access, understand, use and give feedback on open development data.

Key Components

Mapping all donors within a country can help to:

– Improve transparency and accountability

– Identify gaps between resources and needs

– Enhance country ownership

– Ensure aid allocation is aligned with country development priorities

– Improve coordination of development partners

Transitioning from Donor- to Country-Level Aid Mapping

Promoting Aid Transparency at the Country Level

Kenya: Country-owned development data at the subnational level

http://www.openaidmap.org/

OAP Pilot in Kenya

Demand SidePublic ownership of open aid data

Support

Supply SideThe ‘opening’ of aid data

• Geocoding Workshop

• Spatial enhancement of the e-ProMIS

• Open Data Bootcamp

• Open Data for Evidence-based Policy Workshop (planning)

OAP in Kenya Geo-coding Project Activities

Project documents

Project data

Information

• Spatially enabling the national system for development projects – to support visualization and project operations.

• by using location name, coordinates, county boundary…

OAP in Kenya System Enhancement for the Treasury

OAP in Kenya Better Data, Greater Transparency

• Development projects• Development indicators• Social infrastructures• Budget and expenditure• ……

Global Open Aid MapTo publish, aggregate and visualize data on aid flows from governments, donors, foundations and NGOs across many countries for anyone to access and share freely.

The World Bank GroupA vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world

Financial Products & Services

• Provides low-interest loans, interest-free credits, and grants to developing countries

• Supports investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management

Innovative Knowledge Sharing

• Supports developing countries with policy advice, research and analysis, and technical assistance

• Supports capacity building in the countries it serves

Overview of World Bank’s Open Development

• Open Data (April 2010)

• Access to Information Policy (July 2010)

• Open Solutions, Open Tools (September 2010)

• Open Access Policy to Research, Knowledge (July 2012)

• Data Revolution (April 2014)

Detailed Development Project Information in P&O Portal

http://www.worldbank.org/projects/search?lang=en&searchTerm=&countrycode_exact=KE

Categorized Development Indicators in World Bank Open Data Portal

http://data.worldbank.org/http://data.worldbank.org/country/kenya

http://maps.google.com/gallery/publisher?pub=World+Bank+Group&hl=en

Mapping World Bank Development Indicators

From Global to Sub-national

GDP Growth (annual %)

http://maps.google.com/gallery/publisher?pub=World+Bank+Group&hl=en

Sub-national malnutrition

indicators

Thank you for your attention!

Feedback? Questions?

http://www.openaidmap.org/

http://data.worldbank.org/

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