Development Assistance Database Explained

The Development Assistance Database (DAD) is an aid information management system (AIMS) developed by Synergy International Systems,[1] for tracking development aid and managing official development assistance with transparency and accountability.[2] DAD is widely adopted AIMS[3] which has been established in more than 35 countries[4] worldwide in close cooperation with UNDP and respective governments.

DAD provides country governments[5] and development partners with a consolidated source of data on development projects across all donors, demonstrates "who is doing what, when and where" in managing foreign aid,[6] enables harmonization of development projects with national priorities, facilitates management and coordination of development efforts in the country[7] by and promotes results-driven decision-making and aid effectiveness.[8]

DAD has served as the official government AIMS in Afghanistan,[9] Armenia, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic,[10] Comoros, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iraq (including Kurdistan Regional Government),[11] Kazakhstan, Kenya, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Lesotho,[12] Pakistan,[13] Papua New Guinea,[14] Philippines, Russia, Rwanda,[15] Sierra Leone,[16] Sri Lanka,[17] Somalia (including Somaliland),[18] Solomon Islands,[19] Tajikistan, Thailand, Ukraine,[20] Vietnam,[21] Yemen and Zambia.[22]

History

Originally known as the Donor Assistance Database, the DAD was rebranded as the Development Assistance Database on August 2, 2005. The first Donor Assistance Database was a PC system developed in the scope of the G7 Support Implementation Group project for Russia in 1996 to monitor aid assistance donated from the international community.[23] The first Donor Assistance Database tracked 20,000 projects, and over US$100 billion in official development assistance delivered from 1991 to 2001.[24] The DAD was then adapted as a tool for the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union to monitor development assistance from the international community. These first generation implementations include Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Tajikistan.

Most of these implementations have taken place through a partnership between the software company Synergy International Systems, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This partnership led to the signing of a long-term agreement in July, 2005.[25]

See also

Synergy International Systems

External links

References

  1. Web site: Aid – isiAfrica. isiafrica.net. 2016-03-04.
  2. Web site: Comparative Experience: Aid Information Management Systems in Post-Conflict and Fragile Situations. 2010-10-01. United Nations Development Programme.
  3. Web site: Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda "Evidence in aligning aid information with recipient country budgets". Samuel Moon with Zachary Mills. 2010-07-01. Overseas Development Institute and Publish What You Fund.
  4. Web site: How have aid for trade flows evolved?. OECD, WTO.
  5. Web site: Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation DAD YEMEN FACT SHEET.
  6. Web site: Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning of Nigeria, DAD Nigeria.
  7. Web site: Development Assistance Database (DAD). 2011-11-01.
  8. Web site: AIMS and public financial management.
  9. Web site: JOINT EVALUATION OF THE PARIS DECLARATION PHASE 2:ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN . BAWAAR Consulting Group . 2010-01-01.
  10. Web site: FRAGILE STATES PRINCIPLES.Good Practice Cases. United Nations Development Programme. 2011-02-24.
  11. Web site: Strengthening Capacity Building and Public-sector Management in Iraq: A Report of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project Center for Strategic and International Studies. Andrew Rathmell. Paul S. Frederiksen,Shannon Hayden, Sasha Kishinchand. 2007-08-01.
  12. Web site: 2013 Resident Coordinator Annual Report, Lesotho. United Nations Development Programme.
  13. Web site: Pakistan. 2012-09-09. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  14. Web site: PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Organisation for economic co-operation and development.
  15. Web site: MANAGING AID FOR TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT RESULTS: Rwanda Case Study. Richard Newfarmer . Michele Savini . Zangrandi Mariana Vijil . 2013-01-12. OECD, IGC.
  16. Web site: End-of-Project Evaluation of'Support to Development Assistance Coordination Office'& Review of Sierra Leone's Aid Coordination Architecture. Stuart Black . Jörg Nadoll . Yaw Adu-Boahene . 2009-09-01.
  17. Web site: Sri Lanka Deploys Housing Tracking Module in Synergy Development Assistance Database and Portal; eGovernment Solution Gives Transparent View of Asian Tsunami Recovery Progress. 2006-06-22. Business Wire.
  18. Web site: Improving Aid Effectiveness in Somalia. United Nations Development Programme.
  19. Web site: Solomon Islands Aid Coordination and Management. United Nations Development Fund.
  20. Web site: Support to better coordination and management of international aid/assistance (through establishment of the development assistance database - DAD). United Nations Development Programme. https://web.archive.org/web/20160307044147/http://www.ua.undp.org/content/ukraine/en/home/operations/projects/democratic_governance/project_sample112111.html. 2016-03-07. dead.
  21. Web site: Provision of Technical Assistance Personnel in Vietnam. David Watson . Nguyen Minh Thong . Julia Zinke . 2007-09-01. European Centre for Development Policy Management.
  22. Web site: Evaluation of the Joint Assistance Strategy for Zambia (JASZ) 2007-10. 2010-06-01. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
  23. Web site: Business Toolkit for Russian Enterprises "Professional Associations Component". 1996-09-01. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu JLA Group Ltd..
  24. Web site: Directory of U.S. Technical Assistance Activities in Russia. 1996-09-01.
  25. Web site: Study to Establish a Donor database in the Kingdom of Swaziland. 2012-09-01. Government of Swaziland With Support from UNDP.

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