Blog Archives - Publish What You Fund

by Sally Paxton | Aug 17, 2017 | Blog

Redesign Data: Dueling dashboards

This blog was co-written by our US Representative Sally Paxton and George Ingram, Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally published on the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) blog as part of their Redesign Data series. The potential...

by James Coe | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog

5 things we learned about IATI at the Africa Open Data Conference

This blog was originally posted on IATI’s website. It is written by James Coe (Publish What You Fund), Annelise Parr (IATI Secretariat & UNDP) and Reid Porter (InterAction). Last month, Ghana hosted the second Africa Open Data Conference (AODC). The event...

by Sally Paxton | Aug 1, 2017 | Blog

Applause for USAID

When the US made the important commitment to aid transparency in Busan in 2011, it was applauded as a significant step toward more effective, evidence-based foreign assistance. The transparency road has been a bit bumpy, but some recent work by USAID in Bangladesh...

by Andy Lulham | Jul 10, 2017 | Blog

Maintained, machine-readable DAC and CRS code lists – de rien!

tl;dr: Maintained, machine-readable versions of the DAC and CRS code lists are now available as CSV and JSON! Here’s how Publish What You Fund and Open Knowledge made it happen… The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) maintains a set of code lists –...

by Elise Dufief | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog

Three key takeaways from the Transparency Research Conference 2017

From June 19 – 21, I travelled to Limerick to attend the 5th Transparency Research Conference. It is jointly organised by the University of Limerick and the University of Baltimore in the USA, in association with the universities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and...

by Sally Paxton | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog

The Stats behind the Soundbites: What does IATI say about US foreign assistance?

This blog is by James Coe, Senior Advocacy Advisor & Sally Paxton, US Representative The 2018 foreign assistance cuts proposed by the Trump Administration have set off significant debates about the priorities for US investments abroad. Moreover, with ambitious...

by Catherine Turner | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog

The Grand Bargain: is the transparency commitment set to be ‘win-win’ for all concerned?

“We need the few giants to look past self-interest and towards building the humanitarian system of tomorrow, creating a win-win situation for donors, UN and non-UN agencies, taxpayers and, above all, affected populations.” Excerpt from: Too Important to Fail –...

by Guest | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog

USAID can take transparency to the next level

USThis is a guest blog post by George Ingram, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chair of the Friends of Publish What You Fund. The original blog was posted on the Brookings site. It is an anxious time. The development community is fraught over a complex...

by Rupert Simons | Jun 9, 2017 | Blog

An uneasy European consensus for development

This week in Brussels, the European Union (EU) institutions proudly launched a new ‘Consensus for Development’ that will shape their development policy for the next ten years. The European Union and its member states collectively account for just over half of global...

by Katie Welford | May 25, 2017 | Blog

A New Partnership for Somalia: is it serious about mutual accountability?

Earlier this month, the British government hosted a conference on Somalia, together with the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia, the African Union and United Nations. The conference was timely: Somalia’s recovery from decades of civil war is being...