Launch of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index
Join the launch of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index on Wednesday 13 July at 2.30 BST. Marking the tenth anniversary of the Index, this hybrid event will take place online and in Brussels.
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
In the run up to the launch of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index, 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.
How to track aid flows to local organisations
Many donors have adopted targets to direct more funding to local organisations. But past efforts to track funding flows have often struggled to agree on a definition of local. In this blog we present an approach we’ve been testing for six months. Using USAID as an example, we’ve been working to understand, interpret and present existing data in a way that enables stakeholders to undertake analysis and track funding based on their own definitions of local.