- Publish What You Fund has coordinated letters from civil society groups in March 2012 ahead of the deadline for Open Government Partnership (OGP) plans in April 2012.
The purpose of these letters are to urge OGP members to include aid transparency commitments – specifically implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), within their Open Government Partnership (OGP) ‘Action Plans’. These are due to be delivered to OGP by 9th April 2012 ahead of the OGP Annual Conference in Brazil (17th – 18th April 2012) where the OGP Declaration will be formally endorsed by all new members.
Using the aid transparency commitments within the Busan Agreement and the precedent set by the UK and US (who both include aid transparency within their OGP commitments), we are using this opportunity to contact donors who are also OGP members and will be asking:
IATI non-signatories to commit to sign IATI
IATI Signatories to commit to publish to the IATI Registry as soon as possible
IATI Publishers to commit to publish more and better information and include all development-related flows
- Publish What You Fund has coordinated letters from civil society groups which ask donor and recipient country ministers to ensure aid transparency commitments are reaffirmed at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness at Busan in November 2011.
The letters set out why aid transparency is needed and what each country can do, either as a signatory of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), non signatory, or partner country, to contribute to a positive outcome at Busan.
The letters can be read below as they are finalised, and any responses will be posted here as soon as they come in.
- These follow letters from CSOs in June 2010 urging ministers to ensure that the IATI standard would include information on future aid flows, and would be in a format that could be made compatible with donor and recipient budgets;
- Letters from 50 CSOs in November 2010 asking European development leaders to fulfill commitments made at the High Level Forum in Accra, 2008; and
- Letters from 35 CSOs ahead of the February 2011 finalisation of the IATI standard urging aid donors to ensure IATI would meet the needs of partner countries.