Open Un-Habitat Transparency Initiative

The purpose of Open UN-Habitat is to gather existing contribution data and documentation from UN-Habitat projects and make it accessible to the general public. This has previoiusly been difficult due to the data being scattered across different systems or the information needing to be requested in a certain manner. Open UN-Habitat will be an online searchable portal conforming to the IATI standard. By increasing the transparency of the projects, UN-Habitat contributes to the dialogue on aid effectiveness, results and accountability. This applies in relation to partner countries and tlieir populations as well as to donors. Sida has stated that this new system has not only provided Sweden's citizens with a method of tracking funding given to different organizations and governments, but has also influenced the quality of their work and improved communication between headquarters and regional offices.