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by Elise Dufief | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog

Advancing aid and budget transparency for development: five things you need to know

This blog has been co-authored by Elise Dufief, Research and Monitoring Manager, Publish What You Fund and Claire Schouten, Senior Programme Officer, International Budget Partnership. At the core of the relationship between citizens and the state are decisions about...

by Katie Welford | Jul 16, 2018 | News

New CEO joins Publish What You Fund

Publish What You Fund is delighted to introduce its new CEO, Gary Forster. Gary joins the team at an exciting time, following the successful launch of the 2018 Aid Transparency Index in June under the excellent leadership of interim CEO Catherine Turner. The team is...

by Elise Dufief | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog

Winds of change – can Abiy Ahmed open up Ethiopia?

‘Stellar’, ‘impressive’, ‘unprecedented’, ‘historical’ – these are some of the adjectives that have been used in the past few weeks to describe the reform agenda that the new Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, is pushing for. Since his rise to power in April 2018,...

by Ines Schultes | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog

Sampling for Sweetness – Part II

“Sampling is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” This is how the team here at Publish What You Fund felt when the data collection period for our 2018 Aid Transparency Index ended on the 9th of March. It was again time to put on our data...

by Guest | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog

How better aid transparency will help tackle global development challenges

This post was written by George Ingram, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally published on the Brookings Institution’s website on June 21st, 2018. On June 20, Brookings hosted the...

by Katie Welford | Jun 20, 2018 | News

Foreign Office lags behind on international aid transparency

FCO placed 40th out of 45 on global transparency index, compared to DFID who come 3rd The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is one of the worst major donors in the world on aid transparency, according to a new Index released today [Wednesday, 20th June]. The...

by Katie Welford | Jun 20, 2018 | News

Asian Development Bank tops global aid transparency rankings for first time

Development finance institutions as a group perform above average in ranking of 45 aid and development donors The Asian Development Bank comes top for the first time in a global transparency ranking, as the seven development finance institutions (DFIs) included...

by Katie Welford | Jun 19, 2018 | News

USAID biggest improver among US agencies in global foreign assistance transparency

MCC still global leader ranked 5th out of 45 agencies USAID places 16th, solidly in the ‘good’ category, in a global transparency ranking after making efforts to improve the quality of its foreign assistance data. The Aid Transparency Index, launched by...

by Katie Welford | Jun 18, 2018 | News

George Ingram delivers testimony to Senate based on our USFA research

George Ingram, Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund, has delivered testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on the Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations for the State Department, USAID, and MCC. This testimony...

by Katie Welford | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog

New animation: Why aid transparency matters

Why aid transparency matters from Publish What You Fund on Vimeo. This video has both English and French subtitles – just click the CC in the bottom right hand corner to select...