We are committed to significantly increasing the availability and accessibility of timely, comprehensive and comparable information about aid. When comparable and available, this information benefits both donors and recipients in assessing their effectiveness and impact.
 
Greater transparency is central to delivering on the promise of aid: to empower people in the fight against poverty and humanitarian disasters.  Countries that receive international aid have little way of knowing how much aid is coming in to their country and how it is being spent. Donors often face serious challenges in establishing where and how their help is most efficient and effective.

Aid transparency involves publishing information on aid flows and donor efforts which have developmental or humanitarian impacts.  This should include the origin and destination of aid, as well as the purpose, conditions and contracts of the aid itself.  

Who needs aid transparency?

• Citizens, civil society and parliamentarians - in both donor and recipient countries;

• Recipient governments – oversight bodies such as prime minister’s or cabinet offices, audit institutions as well as line ministries and semi autonomous agencies;

• Donors – governments, multilaterals and increasingly also private foundations and non-governmental organisations.