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Welcome to Development Initiatives

Welcome to the Development Initiatives website. We hope it will provide you with an idea of who we are, what we do and how we like to work.

Right now, we are working with governments, multilateral agencies, research institutes and NGOs to:

• monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the 0.7% target and Gleneagles commitments to make poverty history
• analyse humanitarian aid funding flows and evaluate funding mechanisms
• increase understanding of extreme and chronic poverty and the role of social protection
• track resources for poverty reduction and sustainable development
• encourage policymakers to look beyond 2015 and to adopt a global strategy for the elimination of poverty by 2025.

Tracking resources for poverty reduction

March 2008 – Development Initiatves has launched aidinfo, a major new effort to improve the transparency and timeliness of data on aid resources for poverty reduction.

The ultimate goal is detailed 20/20 information, available in real time, which would enable:

• people in poor countries to find out what donors are funding – how much money is coming in to the country, where it has been spent and on what terms – a level of accountability that can help build the social contract between people and their governments
• governments in developing countries to manage resources more effectively – an essential part of the shift from donorship to ownership
• donors, NGOs and firms to plan future activities – thereby increasing the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of aid on poverty
• people in rich countries to find out more quickly exactly where and how their money has been spent – and the impact it has had
• researchers, journalists, parliamentarians and advocacy organisations access to information that can help focus resources on areas in greatest need and also help people to check whether governments are delivering on timetabled commitments.

While aidinfo.org is under construction, you might like to read What is aidinfo? (PDF) >

You can also email or call Victoria Room on +44 1749 671343 for further details about the programme and how to get involved.

aidinfo is a partnership between Development Initiatives, Brigham Young University, The College of William and Mary and the Stimson Institute, with grant funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Monitoring humanitarian assistance

We work with donor governments, agencies and NGOs to help count, analyse and monitor global flows of humanitarian assistance

globalhumanitarianassistance.org

(our dedicated site on humanitarian assistance)

Tracking resources for poverty reduction

We work with governments and NGOs so that people are in a stronger position to plan, manage and account for resources for poverty reduction through access to high quality real time data

aidinfo.org