Openaid publishes data about the Swedish development cooperation
Openaid is a website on which you can find information about the Swedish development cooperation. The website contains data on when, to whom and with what purpose Swedish international aid is paid and the results that it achieves.
While Sida is tasked to manage Openaid on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the website is not limited to data on Sida’s activities. The data presented in Openaid is based on statistics and disbursements from all Swedish government agencies and ministries that handle funds within Expenditure Area 7: International Development Cooperation.
The transparency guarantee provides greater insight
A transparency guarantee was introduced into Swedish development cooperation in 2010. This guarantee means that public documents and public information about Swedish aid are actively made available on the website openaid.se.
The purpose of Openaid is to provide greater insight into Swedish aid. This is achieved by gathering data from diverse sources on a single website.
Transparency makes aid more effective
There are several benefits to transparent development cooperation:
Sweden is a leading donor with a long tradition of openness. Democracy and human rights are unequivocal priorities of Swedish development cooperation. The objective of transparent development cooperation is to combat poverty as effectively as possible. This objective can be achieved by opening aid to public scrutiny.
International Aid Transparency Initiative
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development cooperation and humanitarian assistance and their results to address poverty and crises.
The aim is to strengthen cooperation between countries, donors, multilateral organisations, the private sector and civil society organisations, as well as to increase coordination, accountability and efficiency in the development cooperation.
IATI has developed a standard that defines how data for aid should be structured and what data should be published. The aim is to make data more accessible to all interested parties.The open data published at openaid.se conforms to this standard.
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