Sweden, Canada, Spain, Tanzania and Denmark have committed to improving their aid transparency at the first international Open Government Partnership (OGP) conference.
A review of 35 country action plans – covering countries from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East…
Private corporations around the world are benefiting from undue levels of secrecy around company registers making it impossible for the public to know how businesses are structured and who really owns them, according to a new report released this week by the…
Speaking at the Open Government Partnership yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed the United States intention to join the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), generally praising the open government initiative.
Clinton spoke about the role of technology as one of the keys…
At the first international Open Government Partnership (OGP) meeting yesterday, Canada presented their Action Plan, which acknowledges the way in which the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) will make information about their aid spending easier to find, use, and compare.
Canada’s Action Plan…
Government and civil society representatives from 53 countries around the world, including Publish What You Fund, will meet in Brasilia for the first annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership – a new global initiative that brings together government, civil…
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations have produced a collaborative analysis of the UK National Action Plan and wider open government policy environment. All countries subscribing to the Open Government Partnership have to submit a National Action Plan (NAP) based on…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN organization dedicated to realizing the rights of children worldwide, has become a member of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
As part of its commitment to greater transparency and accountability, UNICEF will make public…
A report released yesterday by CIVICUS includes a commentary by Publish What You Fund Director, Karin Christiansen, on aid transparency and what it means for CSOs (p.115-116); from the availability of accurate information on donor spending for use in advocacy…
The World Bank has confirmed that it will not support the use of Google Map Maker for citizen-mapping efforts unless it gives users free access to the map data they create.
The World Bank and Google have launched a project using…
AusAID’s Transparency Charter reached a significant milestone this week with the release of six updated country web pages.
The new ‘transparent’ country pages provide detailed information on AusAID’s work, to explain where Australia’s money is spent and its impact on reducing…
Publish What You Fund and AidInfo today published a study examining the connections between aid transparency and climate finance.
Countries have started to report on their climate funding and researchers have pored over these results seeking to make sense of the…
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