New aid management system helps to improve aid coordination in CAR

Dec 8th, 2008 by Kersten Jauer, HDPT CAR

The Central African government and its humanitarian and development partners (HDPT) have jointly launched the aid management system DAD to improve aid coordination and effectiveness in a country where it is needed most.

The public online database will allow anyone to easily find detailed information on humanitarian and development assistance in the Central African Republic (CAR). Flexible lists, graphs and interactive maps will help donors, aid agencies and the government understand better who contributes, and who does what where.

Unlike in most other countries, data on external assistance will not become fragmented, but will be organized centrally following OECD standards. The launch of DAD represents an important milestone for the HDPT’s information management team, building on its success with innovative and user-friendly advocacy, mapping, and knowledge-sharing tools. By late November, donors had already entered data on more than 170 activities (or roughly two thirds of the total), documenting expenditures of more than $145 million in 2008.

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Widely used in Asia but still rare in Africa, aid management systems have become a key element in improving aid effectiveness. Seeing CAR’s post-conflict situation as an opportunity to build back better, the government and its partners will use DAD to better coordinate assistance, monitor the progress of the national development strategy and build much-needed local capacity.

After having signed the Paris Declaration, reached the HIPC initiative’s decision point, and launched a first poverty reduction strategy in late 2007, the government’s and HDPT’s aid management efforts underline the commitment to improved aid effectiveness and results for the almost 3 million Central Africans (or two thirds of the population) who live on less than $1 a day.

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