Aid Transparency

Index Report
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Results Data
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Index Report (printer friendly)
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Executive Summary
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US Brief

The 2024 US aid transparency brief
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Download 2022 Index report
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Download 2020 Index Report
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How Transparent is UK Aid? A review of ODA spending departments
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With Publication Comes Responsibility, 2017

A discussion paper on using open data for accountability in Benin and Tanzania.
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Publier, c’est prendre ses responsabilites – Resume, 2017
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What Proportion of Aid is Actually Transparent? 2017

A discussion paper assessing the visibility of IATI data in the Aid Transparency Index.
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Progress Since Busan, 2014

A discussion paper on transparency and accountability produced for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC).
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Annotated Bibliography on Aid Transparency, 2013
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Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda: Evidence in Aligning Aid Information with Recipient Country Budgets, 2010

This paper, produced by the Overseas Development Institute, explores the linkages between aid and budgets.
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Briefing Paper 1: Why Aid Transparency Matters, 2009

This paper explores the benefits of aid transparency as well as who benefits from it – from recipient governments, donors and aid agencies, to citizens and their representatives in both the South and North.
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Briefing Paper 2: Aid Transparency and Aid Effectiveness, 2009

This paper focuses on the relationship between better information about aid and delivering on aid effectiveness.
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Briefing Paper 3: Greater Aid Transparency, 2010

This paper sets out and explores the link between donor aid and recipient country budgets, and the role greater transparency about aid can play in improving budget transparency, the quality of budgetary decisions, and accountability systems.
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