The Aid Transparency Index relaunched in 2026 with a new paid-for accreditation model. International organisations were given the opportunity to sign up to participate fully in the Index accreditation and assessment process, including full engagement, capacity building and formal recognition for their transparency performance. Sixteen agencies have signed up to participate, including major bilateral donors, […]

The Aid Transparency Index aims to push donors to publish their aid and development information in an open data format. As the global aid landscape changes and donors make progress towards this goal, the methodology has been revised and developed to remain relevant. The 2026 Aid Transparency Index technical paper contains a full account of the scoring […]

The Aid Transparency Index is the only independent measure of transparency among the world’s leading development organisations. It is a periodic publication researched and produced by Publish What You Fund. The Index tracks and encourages progress towards aid transparency, while holding donors to account. Between 2012 and 2024, the Aid Transparency Index operated as a global public […]

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Our focus is on governments and institutions that provide aid and development finance. The scope of this work is growing as more money flows to the private sector, through climate finance and to humanitarian emergencies. We concentrate on the largest providers of aid and development finance as we want the maximum amount of information as […]