How to use open aid data 101

At Publish What You Fund, we have consistently heard that the biggest barrier to using aid and development data has been a lack of understanding of where to look, or what tools are available. One of our core principles is to create a world where those who need it can easily access usable aid data.

This webinar, recorded in both English and French in December 2018,  provides an introduction to using open aid data. It covers a variety of tools which can be used to access open aid data, and focuses on the use of International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), OECD-DAC and World Bank portal data. The webinar is designed for anyone with an interest in open aid data, of all knowledge levels.

 

The webinar should provide you with a good basic knowledge of what resources are available, what they can be used for, and how to access and interpret important information from the available databases. If you’ve ever wondered how to track where aid money is going, how it’s being used, or simply how much is being spent somewhere, then this is the webinar for you!

 

PLEASE NOTE: since the recording of this video, the QWIDS database has been replaced by https://data-explorer.oecd.org/.

Watch the webinar

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Resources

In order to follow the webinar, we recommend downloading the following resources:

• OECD-DAC: Sample Spreadsheet.
• IATI-Decipher
• English Slides
• French Slides
• OECD-DAC Quiz 
• IATI quiz

Learn how to track gender financing with our video tutorial series 

Publish What You Fund established the Gender Financing Project after our partners in the development sector highlighted the difficulty of tracking current and projected funding towards gender equality. To improve this, our project aims to map different sources of gender financing and to provide recommendations to governments, donor agencies, and civil society to improve the availability of information about this funding.

Over the course of our research in Kenya, Nepal and Guatemala, interviewees repeatedly highlighted that there is insufficient knowledge or capacity within their organizations to navigate and track gender financing. As a result, we would like to provide gender advocates with helpful tools and resources to find and use this data.

We have created a video tutorial series for anyone who would like to learn how to track aid and development funding for gender equality. The main focus of the four videos is to help you track international donors’ funding to improve gender equality, using some of the most trusted and well-used data sources.

The videos are available with French, Spanish, English and Nepali subtitles and can be accessed here.

Other webinars and events

You can catch up on all our webinars and launch events, covering a range of topics including the transparency of development finance institutions, localisation, women’s economic empowerment and humanitarian aid, on our YouTube channel.