We work with many other organisations and partners to promote aid effectiveness, transparency and open data.
Aid Data
The AidData initiative aims to capture the universe of development finance by collecting and standardizing aid information. The AidData.org portal provides more comprehensive information on development activities than is currently available from any other source, building on the OECD’s Creditor Reporting System. In addition, AidData works at the global and country level to make aid information more relevant and accessible to a wide range of stakeholders.
Aid Info
AidInfo, based within Development Initiatives, is working with the international development community to create a publicly accessible online format that opens up comparable, comprehensive, detailed, flexible, timely and transparent data about aid. AidInfo is supporting the International Aid Transparency Initiative through background technical work.
Article 19
ARTICLE 19 is an independent human rights organisation that works globally to protect and promote the right to freedom of expression. It takes its name from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees free speech. In 2010, ARTICLE 19 brought together members of the global human rights, development and transparency communities to discuss the MDGs, resulting in the London Declaration for Transparency, the Free Flow of Information.
The Bank Information Center (BIC)
The Bank Information Center (BIC) partners with civil society in developing and transition countries to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions to promote social and economic justice and ecological sustainability. BIC is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection of rights, participation, transparency, and public accountability in the governance and operations of the World Bank Group and regional development banks.
BOND
Bond is the UK membership body for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in international development. Established in 1993 on the initiative of 61 NGOs working in international development, we have 358 members (at 31 March 2011) ranging from large bodies with a world-wide presence to smaller, specialist organisations working in certain regions or with specific groups of people.
The Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development is an independent think tank based in Washington, D.C. that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community. In October 2010 the Center launched ‘QuODA’, an assessment of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by 23 donor countries and more than 150 aid agencies.
The Development Research Institute (DRI)
The Development Research Institute (DRI) at New York University seeks to engage the academic world and the wider public about effective solutions to world poverty. DRI has also established a programme of research on aid and accountability.
AidWatch
The AidWatch Initiative is a pan-European lobby and campaigns initiative monitoring and advocating on the quality and the quantity of aid provided by EU Member States and the European Commission. The AidWatch network is an active group of civil society aid experts that works collectively to hold Member States to account on their aid quality and quantity commitments.
FreeBalance
FreeBalance helps governments around the world leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth. FreeBalance software solutions for public financial management support reform and modernization to improve governance, transparency and accountability. FreeBalance solutions have been implemented in countries across the globe, including Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Canada, Guyana, Iraq, Jamaica, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Mongolia, Namibia, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Sierra Leone, Southern Sudan, Timor-Leste, Uganda, and the USA.
The German Marshall Fund
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grant-making institution dedicated to promoting better understanding and cooperation between North America and Europe on transatlantic and global issue. The GMF’s Transatlantic Taskforce on Development published a report which examines “development cooperation on a transatlantic basis” and the role of development in the modern world.
Global Integrity
Global Integrity champions transparent and accountable government around the world by producing innovative research and technologies that inform, connect, and empower civic, private, and public reformers seeking more open societies.
The Global Transparency Initiative (GTI)
The Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) is a network of civil society organisations promoting openness in the International Financial Institutions, such as the World Bank, the IMF, the European Investment Bank and Regional Development Banks.
The International Budget Partnership (IBP)
The International Budget Partnership (IBP) was formed in 1997 to collaborate with civil society organizations in developing countries to analyze, monitor, and influence government budget processes, institutions, and outcomes. The aim of the Partnership is to make budget systems more responsive to the needs of poor and low-income people in society and, accordingly, to make these systems more transparent and accountable to the public. IBP released the Open Budget Survey in October 2010, which is the only independent, comparative, regular measure of budget transparency and accountability around the world.
OMB Watch
OMB Watch was formed in 1983 to lift the veil of secrecy shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). OMB oversees federal regulation, the budget, information collection and dissemination, proposed legislation, testimony by agencies, and much more. OMB Watch has expanded its focus and now concentrates on four main areas: Budget, taxation, and government performance; Access to government information; Nonprofit action, advocacy, rights, and policy; and Regulatory policy.
ONE
The ONE Campaign is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease by raising public awareness and asking political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives. ONE campaigns for more effective aid and trade reform, and supports greater democracy, accountability and transparency.
OpenAid
OpenAid is an advocacy organisation in Germany committed to improving aid effectiveness through transparency and feedback processes. OpenAid’s objectives are the implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and more transparency in non-governmental aid agencies. Another key goal is the promotion of citizen monitoring and feedback processes at project level – particularly using new technologies and social media.
Open Aid Partnership
The Open Aid Partnership (OAP) works to improve aid transparency and efficiency through supporting development partners in visualizing the sub-national locations of aid activities on an Open Aid Map. Knowing the geographic locations of where organizations are operating within a country allows governments, donors, private sector and civil society organizations to better coordinate and harmonize their efforts. It also supports citizens to better monitor on-the-ground progress and provide direct feedback on project results.
Open Aid Partnership has so far been endorsed by Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, and United Kingdom, as well as the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Foundation Center, InterAction, ONE, and the World Bank Group. OAP works in partnership with the governments of Bolivia, Kenya, Malawi, and Nepal. The Open Aid Partnership is hosted by the World Bank Institute.
Oxfam
Oxfam America is undertaking a major programme of research and advocacy on ‘ownership’ within a framework and is promoting information and transparency of aid as a first step to improving recipient country ownership.
Publish What You Pay (PWYP)
Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is a global civil society network with over 600 member groups across more than 50 resource-rich countries like Nigeria, Angola, Cambodia and Kazakhstan that are united in their call for oil, gas and mining revenues to form the basis for development and improve the lives of ordinary citizens in resource-rich countries.
The Revenue Watch Institute
The Revenue Watch Institute is a non-profit policy institute and grant-making organization that promotes the responsible management of oil, gas and mineral resources for the public good. With effective revenue management, citizen engagement and real government accountability, natural resource wealth can drive development and national growth. RWI provides the expertise, funding and technical assistance to help countries realize these benefits.
Transparency International
Transparency International is a global network including more than 90 locally established national chapters and chapters-in-formation. These bodies fight corruption in the national arena in a number of ways. They bring together relevant players from government, civil society, business and the media to promote transparency in elections, in public administration, in procurement and in business. TI’s global network of chapters and contacts also use advocacy campaigns to lobby governments to implement anti-corruption reforms.
