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<p>The Development Tracker was launched by the Secretary of State on 31 October 2013
to present project documents, budgets, transactions and locations of DFID projects
in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) open data standard.
The Tracker has enabled a step change in public access to information on how UK development
assistance is being used.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Tracker is continually
assessed and improved according to user need. The Tracker has 14000 visits and 80000
page views per month. There are 2442 email subscribers and 12949 email alerts were
delivered in October 2014. Almost 60% of users are from the UK, with a wide range
of users from countries where we work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Tracker has
received positive feedback from users. In October 2014, DFID was ranked 2nd in the
global Publish What You Fund Aid Transparency Index which noted that the Tracker represents
“a major step forward in improving the accessibility of information on UK development
assistance by integrating IATI data for NGO implementing partners with its own data
and that of other UK government departments”.</p><p> </p>
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