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The Development Gateway: An IREX Venture blog is where DGers share specific learnings, offer thought-provoking insights, and pose challenging questions for the sustainable development community derived from our work.

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DG Tech Series: Why We Are Building Web Applications with Backbone and Require JavaScript

I'm Ionut Dobre and the evolution of browsers into powerful platforms is inspiring developers to write richer and more complex applications. The downside to this is of course that as the code becomes more complicated, problems like code maintenance or resolving new bugs begin to appear.

May 23, 2013
Innovation
How GPE is Enabling Dynamic Visualizations of Open Education Data

Development Gateway is very pleased to announce its successful involvement in the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) first data visualization venture.

May 21, 2013 Global Data Policy
Open Data
Le Burkina Faso rend ses données publiques et lie la PGA à son système de gestion budgétaire

'Development Gateway a rencontré M. Jean-Marie Kebre, Chargé de la coordination de l’aide et point focal de la PGA au sein de la Direction Générale de la Coopération (DGCOOP), au Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances du Burkina Faso. M. Kebre s’est exprimé sur deux grand chantiers actuels de la DGCOOP: l’ouverture de la PGA à tous les acteurs intervenant dans la gestion de l’aide ; et l’interfaçage entre la PGA et le système CIFE (Circuit Intégré des Financements Extérieurs).'

May 16, 2013
Aid Effectiveness & Management, En Français, Open Data
The IFC Women’s Finance Hub is Powered by Zunia

Development Gateway is proud to announce that the Women’s Finance Hub is powered by our Zunia Knowledge Sharing Platform.

May 14, 2013
News/Events
Le Togo produit son premier rapport sur l’aide grâce à la PGA

Dans le souci d’améliorer la gestion de l’aide et la transparence dans son utilisation, le gouvernement togolais a choisi de mettre en place la Plateforme de Gestion de l’Aide (PGA) comme système de gestion de l’information de l’aide au développement. M. Essobouzou Awade, Coordonnateur National de la Déclaration de Paris au sein du Ministère de la Planification, du Développement et des Affaires Territoriales (MPDAT) du Togo, dans son intervention, a mis l’accent sur les réalisations effectuées avec la PGA depuis la mise en place du système en 2011.

May 9, 2013
Aid Effectiveness & Management, En Français
Where Does $1 Billion in Official Development Assistance Go in Nepal?

On April 16, the Nepal Ministry of Finance (MoF) formally launched its second-annual Development Cooperation Report (DCR) for fiscal year 2012. The DCR, which aggregates and analyzes information from the Nepal Aid Management Platform (AMP), dissects and displays for the public how $US 1 billion in development assistance – representing 26% of the national budget - was used in Nepal over the past year.

May 8, 2013
Aid Effectiveness & Management, News/Events
Open China Data is a Disruptive Gateway Drug

On Monday, AidData released the largest Open Data cache of Chinese development finance in Africa. The Chinese Development Finance in Africa database contains nearly 1,700 official finance projects in 50 African countries, totaling over $70 billion in reported financial commitments.

May 1, 2013
News/Events, Open Data
What is Chinese Development Finance in Africa?

Development Gateway is proud to announce AidData's launch of a new interactive database that tracks Chinese development finance flows to Africa from 2000 to 2011.

April 30, 2013
News/Events, Open Data
La République Démocratique du Congo décentralise l’utilisation de la PGAI au niveau provincial

La Constitution du 18 février 2006 a adopté la décentralisation comme mode de gestion des affaires de l’Etat à travers trois paliers du pouvoir (central, provincial et local) et prévoit le passage de l’Etat congolais de 11 à 26 provinces. De plus, le Forum national de haut niveau sur l’efficacité de l’aide qui a eu lieu en 2009 à Kinshasa a permis d’identifier un besoin réel au niveau des provinces de disposer d’informations fiables et en temps réel sur les projets mis en œuvre dans leur circonscription.

April 26, 2013
Aid Effectiveness & Management, En Français
China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection

How big is China’s aid to Africa? Does it complement or undermine the efforts of traditional donors? China releases little information and outside estimates of the size and nature of Chinese aid vary widely. In an effort to overcome this problem, AidData has compiled a database of thousands of media reports on Chinese-backed projects in Africa from 2000-2011. The database includes information on 1,673 projects in 51 African countries, and $75 billion in commitments of official finance.

April 23, 2013
News/Events