I wanted to give a quick heads up to the community that Matt Geddes and I are working on a project with the Economic Relations Division in the Ministry of Finance and UNDP, to begin using IATI data as part of Bangladesh’s Aid Information Management System.
We’re in Dhaka this week meeting with government officials and the donor community, so colleagues may get some enquiries from their country offices. We will also aim to give heads up where we’re meeting with specific organisations.
We’ll keep the community updated here as we progress. Feel free to get in touch if you want more information.
We just published a blog on our findings from the first three weeks of development in importing IATI data to the Bangladesh AIMS, working with Technovista.
Aside from a bunch of pretty important technical work we’ve now got working smoothly (retrieving data, converting between versions of the IATI Standard, etc), we have the following pieces of the user interface working well:
Take a look at the blog for more details on all of this work. We will be proceeding in the next two weeks with the following two areas:
The initial interface has been tested with Canadian and DFID projects. In the next two weeks, we will also be testing with EU, UNDP and World Bank projects.
Our sprint work plans are also always publicly available (see the links in the blog) and we welcome feedback on all of this from others in the IATI community!