A PLAID-Development Gateway Joint Initiative

Project-Level Aid (PLAID) and Development Gateway have merged their efforts to track development finance and cooperation. They are working together to create a joint, easily accessible and independent repository of aid activities. This tool will combine all of the aid data in PLAID and AiDA as well as utilize innovative analytical tools developed at both institutions to provide users with an accurate and up-to-date picture of development information.

The new partnership will continue to provide development practitioners, researchers, country governments, and individuals interested in development finance with access to complete and high-quality information on aid activities worldwide. Through our combined effort, the PLAID and AiDA teams hope to increase effectiveness and transparency by providing easy access to aid information through a shared online source.

AidData is committed to transparency in development finance, and will be free and accessible to the public through an easy to use web portal. AidData is currently in production and will be launched in spring 2010.

To learn more about this new joint venture, please explore the links on the right.

About PLAID and AiDA

Project-Level Aid (PLAID) seeks to improve development finance policy, practice, and scholarship through the collection, standardization, and publication of aid information and research. The PLAID database includes information on individual projects undertaken by bilateral and multilateral aid donors from 1973 to the present. PLAID utilizes data from both traditional and non-traditional sources, including major bilateral donors, multilateral donors, and non-traditional donors. The PLAID team believes that the comprehensive data provided by this project will help improve aid coordination and increase transparency, contribute to the promotion of international data standards, facilitate measurement of the effectiveness of development finance, and provide information for better allocation decisions by donors.

AiDA is the largest online directory of official development aid activities. It offers a quick overview of who is doing what in international development, where they are doing it, and with what funds. AiDA is provided by Development Gateway and the World Bank.

Go to AiDA