About Openaid
Published: August 31, 2020
Updated: October 8, 2025
Openaid is a website that uses open government data to show when Sweden provided aid, who received it, why and what results were achieved.
Openaid makes Swedish aid transparent by gathering data from several sources on a single website.
Openaid is operated by Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and displays statistics and disbursements from all government agencies and ministries that manage funds classified as development assistance (ODA, Official Development Assistance) in accordance with the OECD/DAC criteria for what qualifies as international aid.
For more information, visit Sida’s English site
Why is open data important?
On 1 January 2010, Sweden introduced a transparency guarantee for development cooperation. This means public documents and information about Swedish aid are published online on Openaid.
Transparency has several benefits:
- It helps decision-makers in recipient countries plan, set priorities and manage their work.
- It gives citizens in recipient countries and Swedish taxpayers tools to hold decision-makers accountable, which reduces the risk of corruption and misuse of funds.
- It makes the results of aid more visible.
The overall aim of transparency in aid is to fight poverty more effectively. Making aid information public helps improve planning, accountability and the chance that aid reaches its intended results.