Development Gateway Inc

Programs: Client research projects: over the past several years, dg has focused on research and innovation under two pillars. The first is to improve the functionality and capabilities of existing tools and programs, and the second is to create innovative tools and programs to facilitate the effective and transparent use of resources for current and future clients. Under the first pillar, dg has improved amp's capabilities and user experience; new versions of amp are released regularly to include improvements and innovations such as: a sleek new user interface, a new public portal, the capability of importing data using the international aid transparency initiative (iati) standards, an advance gis module, and new dashboards. Dg has also modified dgmarket (www. Dgmarket. Com) to offer a more comprehensive solution (online bid management) and development gateway has revamped zunia (www. Zunia. Org), the knowledge exchange platform. Under the second pillar, a group consisting of the college of william & mary, brigham young university, the university of texas at austin, development gateway, and esri formed the "aiddata development center and were awarded a 5 year grant by usaid in response to the tender (rfp) geared towards the formation of a higher education solutions networks (hesn). The intent of the network is to leverage the power of u. S. Universities and technology to support usaid's research and innovation effort abroad.

aiddata research: donors provide over $130 billion in official development assistance every year--but where has this funding gone, and has it been effective? Without granular information on individual development aid activities, these questions are impossible to answer. The aiddata initiative seeks to increase aid effectiveness by providing products and services that promote the dissemination, analysis, and understanding of development finance information. Aiddata maintains an open database of information on individual foreign aid activities, works with donors to develop aid information databases, and provides geocoding services to donors and recipient governments. Aiddata is a joint initiative of development gateway, the college of william and mary, and brigham young university. Aiddata works with many other partners on initiatives ranging from data collection and standardization to geocoding and country-level pilot projects.

aid management program (amp): development gateway's aid management program provides software tools and institutional strengthening activities that improve the availability of aid information at the country level. Through a combination of process analysis, training, and technical assistance, development gateway works with clients to create a customized package of support for better aid information management.