On 23 November Australia strengthened its commitment to aid transparency by launching a new Transparency Charter, which will be implemented by: regularly updating information and data about AusAID country program activities — including expenditure, results and annual performance reports, within more comprehensive webpages; fully participating in the International Aid Transparency Initiative that provides data for […]
On 23 November, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released its aid information to its open data portal, and crucially, to the IATI Registry. UNDP publishing its data means that members of the public can now access aid information on its most recent fiscal period. The development will allow people to see where aid money […]
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced they will become a signatory of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) as part of the Bank’s efforts to improve transparency. This will make the IDB the 22nd donor signatory of IATI, which has seen agencies rapidly publishing to its international standard in advance of the High Level […]
Sweden have become the ninth donor agency to publish their aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative Registry, fulfilling their promise to do so before the fourth High Level Forum in Busan at the end of November 2011. Sweden is a strong supporter of aid transparency, having launched its own aid transparency guarantee under its Open Aid […]
The fifth draft of the Busan Outcome Document, released today, 23 November, shows a weakened commitment to aid transparency. The redrafting of the transparency section (22) is disappointing, as newer language has diluted and confused important elements. However, we recognise that this is a compromise. Having consulted widely on this today, there is consensus that […]
Congratulations to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for publishing its aid data to the Foreign Assistance Dashboard today, almost a year on from the launch. We applaud MCC for being the first U.S. agency to publish their “spent” data. Similarly, within the Publish What You Fund 2011 Pilot Aid Transparency Index, MCC was the only U.S. agency to publish […]
