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Who′s in and who′s out? The post-Busan governance structure for aid effectiveness

Publish What You Fund — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:07:38 +0000

The OECD DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness paved the way for negotiations running up to the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), including on transparency, ownership and use of country systems. At HLF-4, the group’s function was extended...

USAID Administrator Raj Shah on the U.S. and aid transparency

Publish What You Fund — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:04:57 +0000

The Pilot Aid Transparency Index 2011 was presented at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on 19 January 2012, with guest speakers including Raj Shah, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The event came just a month after Secretary...

IFI information disclosure policies must improve says new report from leading FOIA experts

Publish What You Fund — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:24:37 +0000

A report released recently by the Centre for Law and Democracy argues that disclosure policies of international financial institutions (IFIs) have forever lagged behind that of national public bodies, and that this should no longer be the case.

Referring in...

Private foundations urged to make aid transparent

Publish What You Fund — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:07:51 +0000

A parliamentary report published by the UK’s International Development Committee (IDC) has recommended that private foundations delivering aid money sign up to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) to improve their transparency and accountability.

The report highlights that whilst private foundations...

Aid transparency in the Busan Outcome Document

Publish What You Fund — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:49:47 +0000

The Busan Outcome Document, or ‘Busan Partnership for effective development co-operation’ agreed on 1st December 2011, has resulted in three important developments for aid transparency within the aid effectiveness process associated to the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness:

Donors, partner countries...

New report: Donor transparency and aid allocation

Publish What You Fund — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:49:22 +0000

Jörg Faust recently released a paper which shows that aid donor governments with higher levels of political transparency often allocate more aid according to recipients’ neediness and institutional performance.

The report, ‘Donor transparency and aid allocation’ is an analysis of the...

UK’s CDC becomes 26th IATI signatory

Publish What You Fund — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:40:52 +0000

Publish What You Fund congratulates the CDC for becoming the first bilateral development finance institution to sign up to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).

As the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in the Republic of Korea comes to a close, CDC,...

PRESS RELEASE: Progress on aid transparency lays foundation for further reforms to improve quality of aid, say campaigners

Publish What You Fund — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:19:20 +0000

Aid donors made significant and welcome progress on transparency at a key summit this week providing a good foundation for further reforms needed to ensure that aid has the best possible impact, said campaign group Publish What You Fund today.

In...

Publish What You Fund in the media from Busan

Publish What You Fund — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:11:21 +0000

A selection of media coverage of Publish What You Fund during the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan 29 Nov – 1 Dec. This page will be updated regularly.

Broadcast

BBC World Service – ‘Letter from Karin Christiansen’

Marketplace –...

PRESS RELEASE: U.S. commits to greater aid transparency

Publish What You Fund — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:22:38 +0000

The U.S. decision to sign up to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), signals a very welcome increase in their commitment to open, coordinated and transparent aid, said campaign group Publish What You Fund today. The announcement was made by...