About the Mapping for Results Platform
As part of the World Bank’s new Policy on Access to Information and building on the success of the Open Data initiative, the World Bank launched the interactive Mapping for Results (M4R) platform in October 2010. The initiative visualizes the location of World Bank projects to better monitor project and impact on people; to enhance transparency and social accountability; and to enable citizens and other stakeholders to provide direct feedback.
For the 2011 World Bank Spring Meetings, the World Bank has released maps of the subnational locations of active projects of all 79 IDA countries. For select countries, the Mapping for Results platform provides not only geographic information of WB-financed programs at the sub-national level, but also allows users to overlay disaggregated poverty and human development data (i.e. infant mortality rates).
An experienced team of researchers geo-coded more than 1250 active Bank financed activities working in 16,520 locations across 81 countries including all IDA recipient countries.
The local project data has been made available to the public through the API of the Open Data Initiative the Bank's new Policy on Access to Information.