Blog Archives - Publish What You Fund

by Sally Paxton | Sep 25, 2018 | Blog

Tracking Private Finance to meet the Sustainable Development Goals

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 Brookings Institution’s...

by Charlotte Smith | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog

A Preliminary Look at the State of Gender Disaggregated Aid Data

We’ve recently begun looking into what role, if any, transparency could play in the push for more or better gender equality. Although we’re still in the early stages, along the way we’ve made some pretty interesting discoveries and wanted to share what we have learned...

by Andy Lulham | Sep 7, 2018 | Blog

Figuring out Fixes for the IATI Dashboard and Publishing Errors

A month or so ago, the IATI Dashboard looked a bit worse for wear: It had a big yellow banner announcing “technical issues”, and the footer text showed the data hadn’t been refreshed in 2 months. That’s problematic, because the Dashboard provides important statistics,...

by James Coe | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog

Visualising Budget Data on IATI: Working on a Solution

Almost twelve months ago I wrote about how people could use IATI organisation file data to find past, present and future donor budgets, alongside a library of linked strategic documents that help put the data in context. The problem? Despite the data being published...

by Ines Schultes | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog

Publishing Practices – Improving the publication of performance-related indicators

As we have outlined in the first blog post of the series on publishing practices, getting the basics right is essential to improve both the user-friendliness and the usefulness of IATI data, removing barriers to data use, including by non-experts. Aid transparency is...

by Catherine Turner | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog

Parting the Clouds: It’s high time for greater clarity in UK aid and development spending

With the dust already settling on Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index (the Index), launched at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC on 20 June, it is worth reflecting on one of the more interesting results to emerge this time – the contrasting fates...

by Ines Schultes | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog

Publishing Practices – Getting the basics right

It has only been a month since we released the 2018 Aid Transparency Index, but we’ve been excited to see lively discussion about the results. As we have emphasised before, the Index process is an interactive one and this does not stop with the publication of the...

by Elise Dufief | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog

Advancing aid and budget transparency for development: five things you need to know

This blog has been co-authored by Elise Dufief, Research and Monitoring Manager, Publish What You Fund and Claire Schouten, Senior Programme Officer, International Budget Partnership. At the core of the relationship between citizens and the state are decisions about...

by Elise Dufief | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog

Winds of change – can Abiy Ahmed open up Ethiopia?

‘Stellar’, ‘impressive’, ‘unprecedented’, ‘historical’ – these are some of the adjectives that have been used in the past few weeks to describe the reform agenda that the new Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, is pushing for. Since his rise to power in April 2018,...

by Ines Schultes | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog

Sampling for Sweetness – Part II

“Sampling is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” This is how the team here at Publish What You Fund felt when the data collection period for our 2018 Aid Transparency Index ended on the 9th of March. It was again time to put on our data...