The 2014 International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) technical meeting finished with participants feeling positive about the future of open data and development transparency. New Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), John Adams of UK’s DFID said: “The TAG was amazing – the range of people, the energy, the enthusiasm were fantastic. We have a […]
Le ministère des Affaires étrangères a mis en ligne ce matin un nouveau site interactif sur l’aide française au Mali. Publish What You Fund, Oxfam France, et ONE France se félicitent que ce nouveau site soit enfin conforme au standard international de l’Initiative Internationale pour la Transparence de l’Aide (IATI). Ces organisations saluent aussi cette […]
We are running an online consultation on the data quality tests we run as part of the methodology used in the Aid Transparency Index. We are specifically asking for feedback on the data quality tests underpinning the automated assessment of IATI data to get feedback on how they can be improved. Guidelines on how you can provide feedback […]
In a significant step forward for global transparency, the first-ever “Open Contracting Data Standard” was announced yesterday by the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). The development of a common standard for the disclosure of contracting data is a key pillar of the work of the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP)to promote disclosure and participation in public contracting – […]
France is pushing forward its transparency agenda, by publishing information on its aid spending in Mali last week. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) became the first French agencies to publish data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), the agreed common standard for publishing information about spending on development. We […]
Four years after the earthquake in Haiti, it is still hard to trace where the money has gone. Data released by the USAid last year shows it spent more than $270m on projects in Haiti in 2013, with US-based companies receiving almost half of this and American non-profits a further 37%. But the data that […]
