Honduras made an important step towards greater transparency by launching their aid data platform last week. The Platform for Aid Management (PGC) will make information on foreign aid programmes and projects implemented in the country readily available and easy accessible to public officials, donors, academia, civil society and the general public. If all donors providing development assistance […]
Companies in the European Union will now have to disclose in future how much they pay foreign governments to secure oil, gas, coal and other raw materials. The new EU legislation, passed yesterday in Brussels, is aimed at curbing corruption between poor countries‘ governments and EU firms. The transparency measures are included in an overall […]
The OECD has released its latest raft of aid figures today, revealing that aid continues to slips further as governments tighten budgets. The statistics show that development aid fell by 4% in real terms in 2012, following a 2% fall in 2011. The continuing financial crisis and euro zone turmoil has led several governments to restrict their […]
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has begun publishing to the International Aid Transparency Initiative for the first time, as of last week. IDB is a leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB became a signatory of IATI at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in November 2011, and […]
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) will have a new set of hosts, decided by the steering committee yesterday in Paris. The UNDP, Sweden, UNOPS, Ghana and Development Initiatives, will work as a consortium and share responsibility for hosting IATI. The Consortium was chosen because the steering committee believes it represents the multi-stakeholder nature of […]
Publish What You Fund has released an analysis of the donors’ plans to implement the Busan common standard, which sets out good practice in reporting and publishing aid data. These implementation schedules are an important step in the aid transparency process, and will be used to monitor donors’ progress towards the goal of full implementation by 2015. We have […]
