OPENAID.FI DATA MAPPING · SDMX

Finland’s development cooperation data, made accessible.

A trilingual data platform presenting the development spending of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs via interactive data visualisations and a powerful search engine.

Openaid.fi databank on Finland’s development cooperation: Official Development Assistance total and a disbursements Sankey diagram by budget line.

Client

Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Services

Architecture, UI/UX Design, Full-stack Dev

Tech Stack

TypeScript, Headless CMS, IATI Cloud

Year

2023

Section 1THE BRIEF

All of Finland’s development cooperation, in one place

Openaid.fi allows users to view all of Finland’s development corporations. This trilingual data platform presents the development spending of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs via easy to understand interactive data visualisations and a powerful search engine.

Section 2CHALLENGE

Open Data for everyone

Increase the transparency and accessibility of Finnish development spending data via an interactive open data portal that can be used by anyone — from government officials to interested citizens.

Section 3PROCESS

Transparency where it matters most

Transparency on what money is spent where, on what projects and with what results is of vital importance in the development sector. By making this information public, policy makers, donor and recipient governments are able to coordinate and plan for projects that have the maximum impact.

Openly publishing development spending data also creates incentives to maximise the effectiveness of aid to ensure tax money is spent appropriately. Through this data portal the Finnish government is able to fulfil its responsibility to make data on development spending transparent and easily accessible.

Section 4SOLUTION

Exploring EUR 5 billion in development spending

Four policy-priority budget cards: Strengthening the Status and Rights of Women & Girls (€2.40 bn), Education, Well-Functioning Societies & Democracy (€1.99 bn), Climate Change & Natural Resources (€1.66 bn) and Strengthening the Economic Base of Developing Countries & Creating Jobs (€1.63 bn).

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Policy priorities

Explore data broken down by policy priority areas, sectors, organisations, location and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Organisations Sankey diagram of the 5 partner organisations of Finnish ODA with the largest budget.

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Interactive charts

An intuitive way to explore data, with the ability to drill down from general aggregates to individual projects.

Sector filter panel with search, select-all and applied filters for economic sectors, education, health and more.

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Search & filtering

Flexible search and filtering system to easily find information related to specific queries across activities and transactions.

Stacked bar chart of disbursed versus committed development funding by year with a tooltip showing 2020 totals.

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For everyone

Used by Finnish government officials to shape policy and monitor data quality, but also accessible to any interested person regardless of technical expertise.

Section 5DATA TYPES

Powered by the IATI data standard

The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs regularly updates and publishes data on its development spending to the IATI data standard. We make use of our own IATI Datastore and its associated API’s in order to display the most up-to-date information.

IATI v2.03

Standard

8,142

Records

2,376

Activities

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Section 7Contact

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