International Development Markup Language (IDML)

	International Development Markup Language (IDML) The International Development Markup Language (IDML) is an XML-based standard for the exchange of information on aid activities. It is used by a number of donors to provide information to the AidData database of development finance. IDML was developed from 1998 onwards, building on a previous text-file format for exchanging development information, CEFDA (Common Format for Exchange of Development Information). Ideas from IDML were also fed into the development of the XML format used in the International Aid Transparency Initiative The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a global campaign to create transparency in the records of how aid money is spent. The initiative hopes to thereby ensure that aid money reaches its intended recipients. The ultimate goal is ... (IATI). Further Information IDML Initiative website with archive of resources from the standards development. References International development Markup languages {{International-dev-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	AidData AidData is a research and innovation lab located at the College of William & Mary that seeks to make development finance more transparent, accountable, and effective. The AidData website provides access to development finance activity records from most aid, official aid donors. The AidData portal provides access to development finance activities from 1945 to the present from 95 donor agencies. In addition, the AidData program works on other projects that make it easier to access and analyze aid information, such as the World Bank Institute's Mapping for Results Initiative and the Development Loop application. History AidData was formed in 2009 as a partnership between Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University (BYU), the College of William and Mary, and Development Gateway. The organization was formed through the merger of two prior initiatives: Project-Level Aid Database, Project-Level Aid (PLAID) and Accessible Information on Development Activities (AiDA). PLAID, conceive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	International Aid Transparency Initiative The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a global campaign to create transparency in the records of how aid money is spent. The initiative hopes to thereby ensure that aid money reaches its intended recipients. The ultimate goal is to improve standards of living worldwide and globally reduce poverty. The IATI also publishes a standard to be used by organizations, allowing different datasets to be combined and shared. History The initiative was launched on September 4, 2008, at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Accra, Ghana. The goal of the forum was to refocus attention worldwide on the steps needed to reach the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. It was presented by the United Kingdom's Secretary of International Development Douglas Alexander; along with Kemal Derviş, Head of the United Nations Development Programme; James Musconi, the Rwandan finance minister; and Kumi Naidoo, then president of CIVICUS. Alexander recommended c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	International Development International development or global development is a broad concept denoting the idea that societies and countries have differing levels of economic development, economic or human development (humanity), human development on an international scale. It is the basis for international classifications such as developed country, developing country and least developed country, and for a field of practice and research that in various ways engages with international development processes. There are, however, many schools of thought and conventions regarding which are the exact features constituting the "development" of a country. Historically, development was largely synonymous with economic development, and especially its convenient but flawed quantification (see parable of the broken window) through readily gathered (for developed countries) or estimated monetary proxies (estimated for severely undeveloped or isolationism, isolationist countries) such as gross domestic product (GDP), of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]