December 1st is World AIDS Day, and many international organisations will be using this opportunity to talk about the successes and failures in the fight against this global disease. In the 2013 Aid Transparency Index, we look at two donors who specifically fund AIDS-related programmes – and it’s a mixed picture in terms of transparency. Find […]
As the world reacts to Typhoon Haiyan and relief aid is sent to the Philippines, we hope that it will be provided generously and quickly – but also effectively. It is all too often the case in humanitarian disasters that aid is badly targeted. This results in some efforts being duplicated while other priorities are […]
The Open Government Partnership Summit was held in London last week. It brought together participants from all around the world – government officials to civil society organisations – all of which share a common interest in increased accountability and transparency. Publish What You Fund was out in force, and we used the summit as an […]
As part of the international summit being held in London this week, the Open Government Partnership has launched an Open Government Guide. The guide, which is primarily aimed at activists and civil servants working in the field of government transparency, highlights practical, measurable, specific and actionable steps that governments are taking across a range of cross-cutting […]
Opening up aid flows: progress with implementing a common information standard Please join us at the OGP Summit for a discussion on opening up aid flows, with contributions from the Sunlight Foundation, DFID, BudgIT and UNOPS. The Panel Ellen Miller, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation – facilitator David Hall-Matthews, Managing Director, Publish What You Fund […]
WASHINGTON D.C. – Information about aid spending is steadily becoming more available, but it also needs to become more useful, concludes a report released today by Publish What You Fund. The results show there is a leading group of organisations that publish large amounts of useful information on their current aid activities. For the first […]
