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The goal is “Good” – how France and Agence Française de Développement have taken on the aid transparency challenge

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The French Development Agency, Agence Française de Développement – AFD, is one of the agencies that signed up to be part of the 2026 Aid Transparency Index. As the final results are being calculated ahead of the launch on 4th November, we spoke to Catherine Bareyre, Head of Accountability and AFD Group Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), about her views on transparency and experience of the Index accreditation process.

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How visible is development cooperation beyond the DAC?

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As the traditional aid landscape shifts, a wider group of governments is playing a growing role in development cooperation. But how much of their contribution is visible in public data? The second report in our Making Impact Visible series assesses the transparency of 47 providers of international development cooperation that are not part of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). In this post, Henry Lewis sets out what the research covered, the strong data foundations it identified, and the information that’s missing.

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Understanding the new MDB methodology on mobilisation – what’s changed and what are the implications?

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The MDB Task Force on Mobilization’s long-awaited Joint Methodologies for Measuring Private Finance for Development are the first update to how multilateral development banks measure private capital mobilisation (PCM) since 2018. In this blog we consider what has changed, how this aligns with Publish What You Fund proposals and the OECD approach, its likely effects on reported volumes of PCM, and what it says about transparency.

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Do trust and transparency still matter? Launch of the 2026 Aid Transparency Index

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Join Publish What You Fund and the Center for Global Development on 4th November to hear the headline findings and themes from the 2026 Aid Transparency Index, the leading global assessment of the transparency of major aid and development organisations, and take part in a timely discussion about the future of trust, transparency and evidence in development decision-making.

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MDB securitisations: transparency must keep pace with financial innovation

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Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are being asked to do more with the capital they have. To meet this challenge, some are turning to securitisations – to free up capital for investment, to mobilise private capital, or a combination of both. Since 2018, over $7.6 billion has been securitised by MDBs. Such transactions have also become more frequent, which raises a series of questions regarding what we can see about the transactions and their implications for development finance. This blog unpacks the latest trends in MDB securitisations and highlights instances where improvements in transparency are important for the proper governance of the institutions involved.