Blog Archives - Publish What You Fund

by Sally Paxton and Guest | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog

Setting the Gold Standard for Transparency – The Opportunity for the New US Development Finance Agency

The new US Development Finance Corporation provides a rare opportunity to set up an agency from the beginning. We can learn from other development finance institutions (DFIs) as to what worked and what did not. This is an opportunity to reach higher, to innovate more, and to truly set a gold standard for transparency.

by Gary Forster | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog

Aid and Development Finance Data – From Useful to Useable

The aid transparency community has a decision to make. All at once we need to raise awareness of the presence of huge volumes of aid and development finance information, and at the same time support new and existing users when they have challenges accessing it. In...

by Gary Forster | Nov 21, 2018 | Blog

Our Three TAG Takeaways

Last week more than 150 aid transparency professionals met in Kathmandu at the IATI Technical Advisory Group meeting. Traditionally this meeting was a space for discussing the more technical aspects of the underlying infrastructure that supports the global aid...

by Gary Forster | Nov 13, 2018 | News, Blog

IATI Decipher – Unlocking 22,300 Strategic Documents and $2.6 Trillion of Aid and Development Budgets

Today we’re launching a new tool that uncovers huge swathes of previously incomprehensible aid and development information. IATI Decipher, for the first time, visualises strategic and budget documents in the IATI Registry. This valuable data – encompassing over 22,300...

by James Coe and Sally Paxton | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog

Accessing Aid Information through the User’s Lens

In the aid transparency arena, one of the most frequently raised issues concerns data use. Why has there not been more uptake of data from the myriad of potential users? What is available and what isn’t? What are the barriers to use? With that in mind, we decided...

by Gary Forster | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog

DFI Transparency-getting into the detail

“Transparency matters. It helps ensure that government money is being used fairly and efficiently, not for private gain at public expense. And it reassures citizens and the private sector alike that this is the case. Development finance is too scarce and too valuable...

by Charlotte Smith | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog

Our Top Four Takeaways from the UN World Data Forum

This past week, I was lucky enough to attend the United Nations World Data Forum in Dubai. While this is only the second World Data Forum to be held, the first in Cape Town in 2017, the importance of good quality, open data to the success of the Sustainable...

by Gary Forster | Oct 10, 2018 | Blog

A Future Strategy for Aid Transparency

By Giles Bolton, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Publish What You Fund, and Gary Forster, Chief Executive Officer, Publish What You Fund “We have found a lack of information from the government in their response. The databases we are looking at don’t match....

by Sally Paxton | Oct 9, 2018 | Blog

How to Consolidate the Two US Foreign Assistance Dashboards

This post was written by Sally Paxton, the US Representative for Publish What You Fund, and George Ingram, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally published on the Brooking Institution’s...

by Gary Forster | Oct 5, 2018 | Blog

Ten Years of Aid Transparency – Fulfilling the Dream of Accra

By Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center for Global Development, Director for Europe and a senior fellow, and Gary Forster, Chief Executive Officer, Publish What You Fund Aid and development transparency has come a long way in ten years. In this, the first...