This is really awesome. A very useful tool especially for those of us handling aid data at the country level and struggling with getting information from non-resident donors.

Thanks for sharing this Mark. We have found the tool very useful for our research at Publish What You Fund so it's great that it's getting some promotion. Well done :)

Thanks Mark this is a great video that is incisive and precise!! Good Job Team!!!

Many thanks for this Mark. At Publish What You Fund we are currently using the CDFD for several pieces of country focused research, generating large datasets for our analysis. We're using it to analyse funding going towards Women's Economic Empowerment in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda and Pakistan. We're also doing analysis on climate finance using data downloaded from the CDFD and are using it to carry out aid localisation research, looking at funding recipients and organisation codes. The tool has been particularly useful because of the clear methodology, standardisation and simplification of the output which can be easily used in excel (and we're also putting some downloaded data into an SQL database). The conversion of currency into one currency also allows for ease of comparability and aggregation, which overcomes a difficulty with previous data downloads. It would be good if there were options to add additional elements to the output - for example, we have imported elements using other downloads of data (from the datastore and d-portal). The option of including descriptions and policy markers, for example, would be good for our specific thematic research. Generally this tool has been a game changer for us using IATI data for country-focused research and analysis of aid flows.