This is a guest post from Erin Hohlfelder & Joe Kraus, the ONE Campaign (originally posted on the ONE blog here) Keeping track of financial information isn’t most people’s idea of a fun time. Perhaps that explains why people enjoy making jokes about accounting (“It’s accrual world.” or “Why did the accountant cross the road? To bore […]
Guest post by Laia Grino, InterAction (originally posted here) In 2014 USAID ranked at the bottom of the “Fair” category of Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index, narrowly missing joining a few fellow U.S. government agencies that were rated as “Poor.” Less than a year later USAID has jumped into the “Good” category. That […]
This is a guest post by Abigail Poe, Director of the Security Assistance Monitor and Colby Goodman, Senior Research Associate of the Security Assistance Monitor at the Center for International Policy From extremist attacks against civilians in Afghanistan to police abuse of Muslim community members in Kenya, people struggle every day with security threats that violate other […]
This is a guest post from Sheila Herrling, Senior Vice President for Social Innovation at the Case Foundation and member of Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Advisory Committee I’m a big believer in transparency. And not just because it’s the “right thing to do” but because it’s the “smart thing to do” if you care […]
This is a guest blog post by Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan of the Aid Effectiveness Unit, Economic Relations Division, Government of Bangladesh. “It is satisfying to note that the response from our development partners since the establishment of AIMS is very encouraging. For the majority of donors on the system, we now have a quite comprehensive data set. It is […]
This is a guest post by Saya Saulière and Leonardo Pérez from Oxfam Intermón. Last January Oxfam Intermon, the Spanish affiliate of Oxfam, launched a new website on aid transparency and monitoring (www.realidadayuda.org/en). We are pleased to announce that most of the contents of the website are now available in English. For the last 20 […]
