Maps and open data on international financial assistance

More recently, I mentioned the existence of open data from the World Bank, but data is only the basis. The basis allows us to understand the performance of various government and international projects.

This data allows them to be visualized and presented in an understandable form. In particular, the World Bank and a number of international non-profit organizations have such an initiative as “results mapping” - this is when financed projects are mapped onto very detailed administrative maps of countries.

And, for example, from the immediate past - mapping the results of aid during the food crisis in Bangladesh.
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This example can be viewed on the World Bank website http://maps.worldbank.org/sa/bangladesh , as well as read about it in the blog of the project AidData


And also here are some examples of visualizations.



You can also see the projects of the World Bank superimposed on the map in such countries close to Russia as:
- Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Azerbaijan
- Armenia
- Georgia
- Moldova
- Mongolia

Unfortunately, there are no maps for Ukraine and Russia, but there are other World Bank data that can be used.

However, those who are interested in what projects with international funding are going or have been in Russia and Ukraine suggest to look into the AidData system and see their data:
- in Russia
- in Ukraine

If anyone has a desire to show this data clearly, then the AidData project has an open API that can be used

By the way, AidData is a unique project. They have gathered a huge base for financing international projects and provide convenient search interfaces to it. I strongly advise him to study carefully.

Why do you need it?

Then to know what and why is being done in our country. In which cases this is done by our government, and in which, in fact, through international projects. In international projects, there is also corruption, poor performance and much more that can be corrected only by monitoring their initiatives.

That is not

But that which is not at all - this is information about the international assistance of the Russian government to other countries. While such assistance is provided, alas, we, as taxpayers, don’t know who, how and in what form it is produced. There is no disclosure of this information in any arbitrary form or in special formats like IATI disclosure standards .