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Putting aid data to work: using better information to get better results

November 4, 2011
8:15am to 5:00pm
World Bank, J Building
Room JB1-080, 701 18th Street NW, Washington DC

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Aid Transparency in Climate Change and Development, 1:30 – 2:45 pm

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AidData, the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the World Bank Institute invite you to a conference on Putting aid data to work: using better information to get better results.

As the open data movement gains traction, governments and donors are increasingly providing more and better data about development assistance. How can different stakeholders make sense of all this information and use it to improve the results of aid on the ground?

Please join us for a day-long conference exploring how open data and aid transparency can be used to:

Visualize and combine aid data with other kinds of development data,
Track climate change finance and coordinate climate projects with work in other sectors, and
Improve the impact of development aid through feedback loops and social monitoring.

The event marks the launch of AidData 2.0, as the AidData program moves out of the "beta" phase and offers new tools for a wide range of stakeholders to track and analyze global aid data. The event also introduces the adaptation aid work of the Strauss Center's Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS), a collaborative research program examining climate change, security, and development in Africa.

AidData and CCAPS will present their work with the Government of Malawi, in cooperation with the World Bank Institute, to pilot a robust aid tracking initiative. This initiative represents the first-ever effort to track all active aid across all donors within one country using dynamic geomaps.

Agenda

8:15 – 9:00 Registration and breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction

Welcome: Jean-Louis Sarbib, CEO, Development Gateway
Keynote Address (by video): Richard Manning, former Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee and Chair of the PARIS21 Consortium Scientific Committee

9:15 – 10:45 Opening Panel: Aid Transparency, Innovation, and the Open Data Movement

Speakers:

Moderator Catherine Weaver, Associate Professor, University of Texas and CCAPS Program
Jean-Louis Sarbib, Chief Executive Officer, Development Gateway
Aleem Walji, Practice Manager, Innovation, World Bank Institute
David Wheeler, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Sheila Herrling, Vice President, Department of Policy and Evaluation, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Lindsay Coates, Executive Vice President, Interaction

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Session 1: Tracking Where, When, and How Aid Money is Spent

Speakers:

Moderator Steve Davenport, Senior Director, Development Gateway and Co-Executive Director, AidData
Mike Findley, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University, CCAPS Program and AidData
Soren Gigler, Senior Governance Specialist, World Bank Institute
Hemang Karelia, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:45 Session 2: Aid Transparency in Climate Change and Development

Speakers:

Moderator Timmons Roberts, Director, Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, AidData and CCAPS
Catherine Weaver and Christian Peratsakis, University of Texas CCAPS
Tom Downing, President and CEO, Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)
Taryn Fransen, Director, Open Climate Network, World Resources Institute
Kiran Pandey, Senior Economist, Environment Department, World Bank

2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:30 Session 3: Closing the Feedback Loop: Innovations in Grassroots Monitoring of Aid and Public Service Delivery

Speakers:

Moderator Brad Parks, Research Faculty, College of William and Mary and Co-Executive Director, AidData
Shanta Devarajan, World Bank Chief Economist, Africa Region
Britt Lake, Director of Programs, GlobalGiving
Jon Gosier, Co-founder, MetaLayer; Former Director of SwiftRiver at Ushahidi
Dan Nielson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University, CCAPS Program and AidData
Sahr Kpundeh, Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank

4:30 – 5:00 Wrap up

Registration

Advance registration is required and space is limited, so please register today. Registration closes at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

For questions or more details regarding the conference, please contact Emily Kallaur, AidData Communications Manager, at ekallaur@developmentgateway.org.

Please click here for panelist bios.

About the partners

AidData is a joint initiative of Brigham Young University, the College of William and Mary, and Development Gateway. It makes aid information more transparent and accessible through visualization tools, geocoding, data standardization, applied research, and related initiatives.

The Climate Change and African Political Stability Program is a five-year research program at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin, partnered with the College of William and Mary, Trinity College Dublin, and University of North Texas. CCAPS analyzes how climate change, conflict, governance, and aid intersect to impact African and international security. CCAPS is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense's Minerva Initiative.

The World Bank Institute (WBI), part of the World Bank Group, is a global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction. It connects practitioners, networks and institutions to help them find solutions to their development challenges.