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Welcome to Project-level Aid (PLAID)

Project-Level Aid is a major new effort to capture the universe of development finance, increase the value of data by providing more accurate and descriptive information, and strengthen efforts to improve donor and recipient strategic planning and coordination. Ultimately, PLAID will assist the international development community in reducing poverty through greater aid transparency and higher levels of aid effectiveness. more

PLAID Launches at Oxford University Conference

In the six years since PLAID was founded, we have compiled and created the most comprehensive database of foreign aid information available. Finally, together with our new partner, Development Gateway, we are ready to open this resource to the public for the first time. 

Today, PLAID and AidData are proud to host the Aid Transparency and Development Finance Conference at University College in Oxford, UK to launch AidData. 

In the news:

At William Easterly's blog, Aidwatch

At ONE

At Global Poverty (change.org)

At Open Aid

At the UN. 

At Reuters.

See how students use PLAID at BYU.

For more information on the conference, please see the conference site. 

PLAID is a project of the Political Economy and Development Lab at Brigham Young University. 


What's New Today - Monday, July 26, 2010

Bill Easterly and ONE cover PLAID

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PLAID Launches at Oxford

In the six years since PLAID was founded, we have compiled and created the most comprehensive database of foreign aid information available. Finally, together with our new partner, Development Gateway, we are ready to open this resource to the public for the first time. See our recent press