Geocoding, further step towards effective development finance

Institutions participating in the AidData project developed in collaboration with the World Bank a new service to gather more precise information on aid projects implemented worldwide. Through this new search option, users can not only find the details of a particular project or check the amount of resources allocated in a certain country in a specific field, but also locate the areas of intervention and measure with more accuracy effectiveness, results and ratio of projects.
The project involved for a period of 6 weeks, a team of 13 people who geo-referenced the documentation of  the 1,216 active World Bank projects, made publicly available through the Open Data Initiative archive.
 The complete list of maps is accessible on the Mapping for results page. Further details on this geo-coding project  are on the AidData blog The First Trance. The dataset used in this project was built using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF and the ArcGIS Server technology from Esri (information found on the apps for development blog)

Map displaying the number of aid projects and
poverty conditions in Kenya's provinces

Another interesting project is the Haiti Aid Map initiative developed by InterAction, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center with funding from FedEx. The map provides detailed project-level information on the work being done by NGOs in Haiti.

Haiti Aid Map homepage

Geo-referencing for its capacities to ensure better information accessibility, coordination and accountability of donors and participation of recipient institutions is becoming a valuable knowledge organization tool to support the implementation of coherent policies for development.

Successful trade between European Union and developing countries

COLEAP network promotes sustainable horticultural trade solutions, gathering together producers and exporters from the ACP countries and EU importers of fruit, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants and other partners and companies operating in the horticultural industry. The cooperation programme PIP managed by COLEAP, financed by the European Development Fund is active in a number of  ACP countries. Information on the local directory of  exporters is available on the PIP site hyperlinked in the following map:

Grace Mueni Nyaa, from Kenya,founder of the Kyome Fresh Company Limited participated to the programme and talked about her experience at the European Development Days 2010. The Kenyan company grew from the initial capital base of €2600 to €140.000 in seven years down the line with an average annual sales turnover of €1.6 million! This sample highlights the importance of the private sector as one of the  main drivers for economic growth in developing countries and in particular small and medium enterprises. More information on the role of SME in developing countries are available in the following presentation: