The Conservative Party’s One World Conservatism Green Paper has stated its “strong support for the global campaign for aid transparency”. If elected, Tory leader, David Cameron promises to:

The US House of Representatives has approved legislation to spend $48.8 billion to strengthen US foreign policy by enhancing both diplomacy and development efforts.

The aid and development community’s focus will now shift to Congressman Howard Berman’s Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act so as to ensure the kind of transparency and accountability this diplomatic and development spending will require to have the best possible effect.

Access the bill here.

ONE is promoting aid transparency in its 2009 DATA Report. The Report emphasises the work of the International Aid Transparency Initiative and Publish What You Fund as “critical to the policy reform” needed to deliver effective aid and development spending.
 

Press Release

Publish What You Fund

The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency

www.publishwhatyoufund.org

Yesterday U.S. Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA), Chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of 2009 (HR 2139), a bipartisan bill designed to increase accountability and improve the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid. The Bill lays the ground work for a major increase in the transparency of U.S. aid.

Publish What You Fund congratulates Chairman Berman and the other co-sponsors of this important piece of legislation.

EU Aidwatch, which is a group of NGOs monitoring aid quality and quantity across the member states LINK (last year’s report) is in the processing of compiling it’s yearly report. Look out for a major section on aid transparency. 
 

(USA) - As the World Bank launches a review of its policy on access to information, the Global Transparency Initiative will track the review process and provide analytical support to civil society groups concerned with transparency standards at the Bank.

For more details see the Bank Information Centre article