MESSAGE FROM KARIN

On 30th June, 36 CSOs sent letters to the ministers and presidents of the 18 signatory donors of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) asking them to use the 7th  July Steering Committee meeting to deliver on their commitments to aid transparency. You can read the letters and responses here.

The donors seem to be listening to the CSOs and recipient countries. It was agreed that nothing would be taken out of the proposed IATI phase 1 or key elements of phase 2. 

Publish What You Fund was invited to a small round-table in London to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron to talk about aid transparency, and to speak to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Trade and Aid.

Finally, we are proud to announce our first working paper with the ODI and International Budget P artnership .The paper  ""The    "Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda"   " considers the challenges and solutions for linking aid information with recipients' budgets.  


NEWS THIS MONTH 

AidInfo have launched two valuable reports: "Show Me the Money", which addresses aid transparency and the role of IATI, and a paper considering the changing relationship between aid institutions and citizens "Technical Innovation: The Opportunities for Increasing Transparency and Accessibility of Aid Data".

On 9th July, the Food and Agriculture Organization  (FAO) of the United Nations granted free and open access to its database, FAOSTAT, the world’s largest repository of data on food, agriculture, and hunger.

The need for aid transparency in the U.S. has been highlighted by Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry, who urged Ambassador Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, to make U.S. objectives, plans and disbursements of aid to Pakistan more transparent. 

UPCOMING
EVENTS
EVENT 
Presentation of 6 Questions Campaign results at the MDGs World Summit 20th –               22nd September, New York.

Presentation of 6 Questions Campaign reports 22nd – 28th September, Global.

International Right-to-Know Day 28th September.

Publish What You Fund aid and budget transparency workshop at the 14thInternational Anti-Corruption Conference November, Bangkok. 
 

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