September 14, 2009, 11:42
July 08, 2010, 15:52
Publish What You Fund has released its first working paper with the Overseas Development Institute, 'Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda' written by Samuel Moon with Zachary Mills.
April 19, 2010, 14:26
April 13, 2010, 15:44
An environment of financial transparency and accountability has grown out of the economic crisis, says Anna Jeffreys for IRIN. This movement has helped increase disclosure of aid information, bringing ‘the issue of transparency much higher up the donor agenda,’ explains Karin Christiansen. The drive for efficiency and accountability has created ‘a resonance about transparency these days... It is an inevitable trend and it’s happening in other sectors too.’
January 13, 2010, 11:30
December 15, 2009, 17:25
Writing in http://www.progressonline.org.uk/Magazine/article.asp?a=5118 ">Progress magazine today, Publish What You Fund’s Federico Pirzio-Biroli warns that there is a real risk that donor countries will get away with this accounting slight of hand at Climate Change talks in Copenhagen unless a transparency measure is included in a climate financing deal. The poverty advocacy group ONE has launched a last ditch attempt to stop aid money being ‘double counted'. Their petition will be handed to the Danish host of the conference next week and asks:
November 24, 2009, 16:43
Karin Christiansen was invited by Oxfam America to participate in the seminar What Do Countries that get U.S. Aid Need to Take Ownership of Development?: A Discussion with Developing Country Leaders on Increasing Aid Transparency and Fighting Corruption in a New Aid Landscape in Washington, D.C. on November 19 and November 20, 2009.
September 23, 2009, 13:23
A report by the Open Knowledge Foundation and aidinfo has just been published for open consultation and they are looking for your views.
August 17, 2009, 18:26
The Department for International Development (DfID) has released their new Project Information database. The database, which comes in response to DfID’s 2009 White Paper promise, aims “to improve aid transparency in line with the commitments made through the International Aid Transparency Initiative”.
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The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency
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August 07, 2009, 11:41
A new aid reform bill, The Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act of 2009, introduced by Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations, calls for full US government participation in the International Aid Transparency Initiative.
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The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency
www.publishwhatyoufund.org