Map¶

The map is where the portal opens. It shows results across every partner country at once, either as an overview of who has taken part, or coloured by a single measure you choose.

The opening view¶

You arrive on a map of every country that has ever taken part in a monitoring round — the current round and the three before it, plus the earlier Paris Declaration surveys.

Hover any coloured country to see its scores on the four dimensions, round by round, so you can tell at a glance whether it has been improving.

Countries outside the monitoring round are shown in a neutral fill. They are context, not missing data.

Country results files. Below the participation summary, a box lists the 44 partner countries in the 2023–2026 round. Choose one to download the Secretariat's compiled results workbook as an Excel file: every indicator the country and its development partners reported, the questionnaire and project data behind them, untied aid and the SDG 17.16.1 elements, with a data dictionary. The file opens in a new tab; a browser with a spreadsheet viewer shows it there, and any other saves it.

Looking at one measure¶

Pick an indicator from the dropdown and the map recolours: each country takes the colour of its score on that measure, from the lightest tint for very low to full rust for very high.

Above the map you get the measure's name, what it covers, and a short bar of figures — how many countries reported, the average, and how many sit in the higher and lower bands.

Below the map, an analysis section opens up with the same measure broken down in more detail.

Whose results you are looking at¶

The Partner Country / Development Partner toggle decides whose practice the map describes:

• Partner country — the country's own results. Every country that reported gets a colour.
• Development partner — one partner's results across the countries it works in. Choose a partner and the map fills only the countries it reported on.

Some measures only exist on one side. A measure about a country's national plan has no development partner version, and the dropdown only offers what applies.

Focusing on one country or partner¶

Selecting a country zooms the map to it and switches the analysis below to that country: its score, the average for its income group, how its four dimensions compare, and a table of every measure it reported.

Selecting a development partner does the same for that partner across its countries.

Reading the colours¶

Countries with no result for the measure on screen are left uncoloured. That means nothing was reported for that measure — the same country may well be coloured on the next one.

Measures that show more than a score¶

Three measures open extra detail when you select them:

• Untied aid (2.8.1) — published for DAC members only, and drawn from the OECD's Creditor Reporting System rather than the monitoring round. The map keeps to the round's partner countries, coloured by the untied share of all DAC members' commitments to them; hover for the amounts behind the share, how many DAC members commit there, and the year the figures cover. Selecting a country lists those DAC members with what each committed and how much of it was untied. This measure is shown in partner-country mode only.
• Quality of PFM systems (2.3.1) — shown alongside the direction of travel (2.3.2), so you can see not just where a country stands but whether it has been improving or declining. Across all countries, you also get the split between improvement, no change and decline.
• Gender budgeting (2.5.1) — shown with the three criteria behind the score, so you can see which of them a country meets. Across all countries, you get the split between fully meets, approaches, and does not meet the requirements, and how common each criterion is.

Common questions¶

Why is my country uncoloured when I know it takes part? On any single measure, a country is uncoloured if it did not report that particular measure this round. It may well be coloured on others. The country's profile shows everything it did report.

Why is one country shown as a pin rather than a shape? The world boundaries the map is drawn from do not include every small island state. Where a country has no shape to colour, the map marks its position with a pin that behaves in every other way like a country: it carries the same hover detail, and selecting it from the dropdown moves the map to it.

The average changed when I switched measures. Why? Each measure has its own average, its own set of reporters, and — for measures based on money — its own weighting. The figure shown is always the published average for the measure on screen.

Why does a partner show "Limited coverage"? A partner's score is an average across the countries it reported on, and that ranges from one country to nearly forty. A score from a single country is not comparable with one drawn from thirty, so partners reporting in fewer than five countries are shown with their score but without a group comparison.

Why is a composite showing no data when I can see its parts? A composite needs more than half its parts to have data. With two of five reported, there is not enough to summarise.

Why does the income group average differ from what I see in Compare? The map always compares a country with its World Bank income group. Compare lets you choose the grouping, so the same country can be set against a different set depending on your question.

Are countries outside the round scored? No. They appear for geographic context only.

Getting back to the start¶

Click Map in the top navigation at any point. The view resets to the opening overview, with no measure, country or partner left selected. Choosing Overview from the indicator dropdown does the same without leaving the page.