Spiros Voyadzis and Anna Lauridsen from Development Gateway International Brussels attended the 7th European Development Days and presented a session on geocoding entitled “Data Visualization for Development Planning” focused on the Climate Change and African Political Stability Dashboards (CCAPS), which track conflict and environmental conditions across Africa, plus all aid projects in Malawi.

1. Solutions that Empower

2. Data Visualisation for
Development Planning
A Look at the Agricultural Sector

3. Overview
• Geocoding Methodology
• Aid Management Platform – Enhanced GIS Module
• Malawi: Multi-donor mapping experience
• Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS)
Dashboards

4. About Development Gateway
§ Created in 2001 by the World Bank, independent NGO since 2006
§ European non-profit since 2007
§ Donors include Australia, Belgium, EC, France, Germany, Japan,
World Bank, UNDP, and others
§ Our mission is to enable change and reduce poverty in developing
countries through the use of information technology. We provide
web-based tools to strengthen governance and make aid and
development efforts more effective.
§ Development Gateway works in the areas of
§ Governance
§ Knowledge and Networking
§ Transparency and Accountability

6. Methodology, IATI, and OAP
• AidData fine-tuned methodology
• Creates a geographic hierarchy for each location
• Allows for aggregation, filtering by administrative division
• Allows users to view only site-level locations, administrative
funding, or both
• Accepted as the IATI standard for sub-national geocoding
• Allows systems to communicate, sharing common standards
• Methodology for the Open Aid Partnership (OAP)

7. Geocoding Toolkit
• Toolkit developed with WBI to improve geocoding process
• Reduces demands for “manual” geographic data input
• Validation tools assure highest data quality
• Exportable to multiple formats

9. Aid Management Platform
• Aid Information Management System active in 23
countries
• The EC funds the AMPs in Kosovo and Togo.
• Moldova and Kyrgyzstan are the last additions
• In 2012, Advanced GIS module was added for all future
upgrades/implementations of AMP

10. Country Impact: AMP 2.0
• Aid Management Platform GIS module
• Integrated with AMP workflow
• Instant GIS mapping
• Identify and search for local activities
• Improve division of labor
• Report generation and planning
• Streamlined visuals
• USAID funded and initially piloted in Liberia

14. Country Impact: Malawi
• Geocoding all projects in Malawi Aid Management Platform
• 750+ projects from 30+ donors with nearly US$7 billion in total
funding
• Geocoded $5.3 billion in commitments and $3.7 billion in
disbursements from nearly 600 projects
• Integrating geocoded data into AMP for sustainable workflow
and improved division of labor
• Work presented by Malawi MoF at High Level Forum in Busan
• Replicable and sustainable process for other AMP countries

16. Malawi: Donor Coordination

17. Malawi: CCAPS Dashboard

18. CCAPS Mapping Tool
• Online data portal for visualizations on climate change
vulnerability, conflict and aid in Africa
• Mapping tool uses Esri’s ArcGIS platform
• Includes multi-donor mapping of Malawi, and all active
World Bank projects continent-wide and all African
Development Bank projects approved in 2009-2010

19. CCAPS Mapping Tool
• Allows users to select and layer any combination of
CCAPS data onto one map
• Layers: aid projects, social and armed conflict, climate
vulnerability
• Filters: dates, status, type of assistance, recipient,
implementing agency, donor, locations and geo precision
and climate relevance…
• http://ccaps.aiddata.org/aid

20. Thank You for Your Time
Anna Lauridsen
Operations Advisor
Development Gateway International
alauridsen@developmentgateway.org