1 / 16

Understanding the Illusion of Learning Through Visualization in Aid Effectiveness

This text explores the intersection of information visualization and the effectiveness of aid distribution. It highlights that while visualization can clarify data, it does not guarantee understanding or learning. Key points include the importance of targeting needs through geocoding, donor coordination, and recipient feedback. The concept of co-financing and the complexities of development are discussed alongside the potential pitfalls of misleading visualizations. It emphasizes the need for better information and methods to evaluate aid impact through randomized controlled trials, urging a focus on genuine learning rather than mere transparency.

verena
Télécharger la présentation

Understanding the Illusion of Learning Through Visualization in Aid Effectiveness

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. “Drinking from the Firehose”

  2. Two Key Points • Visualization helps make sense of information • But neither information nor visualization ….. imply that we will learn Avoid the illusion of learning

  3. Three Key Questions • Targeting of Need • Donor Coordination • Recipient Feedback Where do information and visualization get us? The role of geocoding…

  4. Targeting of Need Geocoding allows fund tracking at the sub-national level Does aid reach and help the neediest?

  5. Full .pdf here

  6. Targeting of Need How do we really know whether aid helps? Will visualizations mislead users?

  7. Donor Coordination Do donors coordinate to target areas of need? Geographic clustering in areas of concentrated need …Spread out in areas of diffuse need

  8. The Swarm Principle Is clustering inherently problematic? What is missing? ...cofinancing. else?

  9. Recipient Feedback Geocoding makes possible leveraging the wisdom of crowds through decentralized citizen and NGO feedback

  10. Recipient Feedback If you build it… will they really come? Locations, Incentives….not technology

  11. Good, Better, Best Complexity of development: • Need for other types of information • Better information on aid and need over time • Methods for multiple variablesand identification of causal pathways Randomized Controlled Trials

  12. The Illusion of Learning? • We’re betting on transparency and visualization • I’m on board But more information does not imply learning Visualization does not imply learning In the race for information, let’s take the time to learn

More Related