Briefing and Working Papers

Our  papers set out some of the key issues, challenges and solutions around aid transparency. We hope they are useful for a wide range of audiences, so your feedback is appreciated.

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Working Paper 1. Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda

Our latest paper, released with International Budget Partnership and the Overseas Development Institute, explores the link between donor aid and recipient budgets, and the role that greater aid transparency can play in improving budget transparency, the quality of budgetary decisions and accountability systems in developing countries.

Briefing Paper 1. Why Aid Transparency Matters and the Global Campaign for Aid Transparency

This paper highlights who needs what information about aid, presents the aid transparency solution, stresses why now is the time to act and introduces the global campaign for aid transparency.

Briefing Paper 2. Aid Transparency in the U.S.

Briefing paper 2 is about the relationship between aid effectiveness, the aid effectiveness agenda and aid transparency.

Briefing Paper 3. Aid Transparency as the Foundation for Better Aid

This paper draws out the links between aid transparency and aid effectiveness, including the relationship to commitments on aid transparency, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the recent follow-up Accra Agenda for Action.