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Aid Management Program
Empowering Country Ownership of the Development Process.
Launched 20 years ago, the Aid Management Program (AMP) was built on the idea that standardized aid data could strengthen country ownership of the development process and align aid with national priorities. The aid shifts of 2025 reinforced just how important that premise remains. As governments face greater uncertainty around development assistance, robust aid information systems become even more valuable for understanding available resources, supporting evidence-based planning, and making informed decisions.
about the aid management program
Through AMP, DG is the leading global provider of Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS). The program includes not just software, but also training, ongoing support, and a peer network of other AMP country partners.
AMP was first conceived and created in collaboration with the OECD, World Bank, UNDP, and Governments of Ethiopia and India. It was anchored in the principles of the global aid effectiveness agenda, as articulated in The Paris Declaration, with a particular focus on country ownership of the development process and alignment of aid with country priorities to improve effectiveness.
AMP offers centralized access to projects and related information, helping governments and development partners gather, access, and monitor information on development activities, with the overarching goal of increasing aid effectiveness.
GIZ Climate Data Information Platform
The Aid Information Management System allows for financial flow planning and reconciliation, project tracking, and document management. Since 2022, DG has implemented the Global Programme Digital Transformation with GIZ, and is building a Climate Data Information Platform based on the proven AMP technology. CDIP consolidates climate finance data, tracks key performance indicators against national targets, and supports long-term climate resilience planning.
AMP has a strong record of independent country ownership and sustainability and helps governments and development partners gather, access, and monitor information on development activities, with the overarching goal of increasing aid effectiveness. With the AMP software, users can track specific activities through the planning, implementation, and evaluation stages. Additionally, with features such as online workspaces, data entry, reporting, plus interactive dashboards and maps, country-level decision-makers can better track how international aid is directed throughout the country.
Much more than technology is involved when it comes to making sustainable and positive change. We work closely with our AMP partners to develop Data Management Plans that create processes and policies to encourage system use. We also provide hands-on training for government and development partners (including training for business users, administrators, CSOs, and other public users, and IT training), ongoing technical and advisory support, policy support for program management, data quality review, and a semi-annual Good Practices Workshop.
impact
As of 2023, AMP has been designated as a digital public good and includes software, training, ongoing support, and a peer network of other AMP country partners. Learn more through DG’s AMP Github.
More than 25 AMPs have been implemented globally since 2005, including:
Uganda: We developed an AMP for Uganda in 2014, as an official online database of aid-funded projects and programs, and in March 2020, we launched an integration of the AMP with Uganda’s Program Budgeting System (PBS). With this integration, information is effectively transmitted between the two systems while maintaining data integrity across both. AMP now holds over 1,300 on-budget projects directly from the PBS. For users in Uganda, the integration prevents duplication of effort and time lost to manual data work. It also eases the process of determining how much money has been allocated to different sectors, and enables budget visualization of annual and quarterly data.
Jordan: DG collaborated with UNDP to implement AMP, referred to in Jordan as the Aid Flows Information System (AFIS), for the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC) of the Kingdom of Jordan. After completing an in-depth assessment, the team conducted a pilot mission to install the platform on government servers, train key MoPIC staff, and socialize MoPIC donor relations units. The team also facilitated a Donor Roundtable, which brought together MoPIC, UNDP, EU, Canada, USAID, Germany, and DFID to be introduced to the platform, gather feedback, and provide input to the data management plan. The platform has streamlined MoPIC reporting processes and enabled the generation of customizable reports and charts by donor, country, and sector, among others.
Côte d’Ivoire: In January 2014, we began our partnership with Côte d’Ivoire to implement their AMP-supported data use in the country. DG partnered with the Technical Unit of the External Resources Mobilization Committee (COMOREX), housed in the Office of the Minister of Economy and Finance, to complete the initial assessment and begin the implementation. From the beginning of the process, the Prime Minister and the Ministry were involved, providing feedback to help define how the tool and processes should work. Because of the high-level of buy-in, the COMOREX team was able to flip the structure of its AMP data collection process: prioritizing information from sector ministries, then supplementing with data from development partners. This has been very successful in driving shared ownership and a stronger aid management program.
Côte d’Ivoire has now become a global leader in the AMP community. The COMEREX team has hosted study tours for peers implementing AMPs in Haiti and Chad, and has taken on a standard-setting role.