Aid Atlas: new tool to visualize development finance flows

Aid Atlas is an interactive online platform developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute to visualize international development finance flows. It aims to make complex aid data more accessible to government officials in recipient countries, researchers, and international organizations through alluvial diagrams and tailored profile pages. By increasing transparency and highlighting financing gaps, the tool seeks to improve the overall effectiveness of the approximately US$ 146 billion annual global development finance budget.

• Aid Atlas is an interactive tool designed to help users understand the volume, destination, and purpose of international development finance, as well as its impacts on the environment and people.
• The platform specifically targets government officials in recipient countries who may lack the time or capacity to analyze complex data from international organizations and development partners.
• The tool utilizes alluvial diagrams for visualizing current and historical finance flows, alongside profile pages that detail committed and delivered amounts, financial instruments, sources, recipients, and targeted sectors or policy objectives.
• The tool addresses a need for better transparency in a global development finance budget of approximately US$ 146 billion, noting that existing OECD data sets are difficult for non-specialists to use and vary in quality.
• The long-term goals for Aid Atlas include improving the quality of public reporting, identifying financing gaps, and eventually integrating socio-economic development indicators to better understand the outcomes of financial support.

APA

Savvidou, G., Dzebo, A., & Atteridge, A. (2019). Aid Atlas: new tool to visualize development finance flows. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/dzebo-aid-atlas-fs-1.pdf

Chicago

Savvidou, Georgia, Adis Dzebo, and Aaron Atteridge. Aid Atlas: new tool to visualize development finance flows. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2019. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/dzebo-aid-atlas-fs-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{savvidou2019aid, author = {Savvidou, Georgia and Dzebo, Adis and Atteridge, Aaron}, title = {{Aid Atlas: new tool to visualize development finance flows}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/dzebo-aid-atlas-fs-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }