The International
Open Government Data Conference concluded yesterday. Development
Gateway and Global Integrity announced
the exciting plans for the OpenGov Hub,
which will be located in Washington and become the physical and intellectual
home for a number of small- to medium-sized organizations working toward a more
transparent, accountable, and efficient public sector. We were pleased
to hear the work
done by CCAPS and AidData in Malawi, and research using the World Bank’s
Independent Evaluation Group dataset (which you can check out here,
here,
and here),
highlighted by Caroline Anstey during her welcoming
keynote speech.
The Tokyo
Conference on Afghanistan took place on Sunday and produced a Mutual
Accountability Framework and a $16 billion commitment from the international community
for development assistance over the next four years. In exchange, the Afghan government pledged
to fight corruption within the government. On the Center for Global
Development’s Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance blog, Justin Sandefur and
Danny Cutherell analyzed
how the decrease in foreign assistance to Afghanistan and a narrowing of U.S. ambitions
might be a good thing for the fragile country. CARE International, however, felt
that the framework lacked specificity, especially in working towards
women’s rights.
The Overseas
Development Institute produced
the Horizon
2025 report, which has spurred
discussion about its predictions that global poverty
will significantly decrease by 2025, with 600
million people or fewer living in fragile and conflict-affected states. It
argues that aid agencies will have to adapt to end extreme poverty. The report identifies the
aid agencies of Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Greece, and South Korea, and the World Bank’s
International Development Association as the donor
agencies at high risk of losing relevance by
2025 if they don’t adapt. Tom Murphy highlights
the report’s findings on South-South cooperation, public-private partnerships,
and traditional donor-recipient relationships. The Guardian’s Global
Development blog emphasized
how falling poverty numbers coupled with aid increases since 2002 mean official
development assistance per poor person has increased and will continue to
increase with the possibility of it reaching more than $300 per person a year
by 2025. Andrew Rogerson explained why he and Homi Kharas took
the risk of claiming possession of a “crystal ball.”
Featured Dataset: On the Monitoring
and Evaluations Datasets page of AidData
Raw, you can download the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group Project Design,
Implementation, Performance and Evaluation Data mentioned above.
Taryn Davis is a Communications Intern at Development Gateway.
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