Today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the First Global Assembly for Budget Transparency, Accountability, and Participation CSO’s from recipient counties will join forces with international organisations including Greenpeace, the ONE Campaign, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) to call for more open and accountable government budgeting. This assembly, held in the final days before […]
EU ministers yesterday agreed a common EU position for the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness at the end of the month. Publish What You Fund welcomes the Foreign Affairs Council’s position advocating reaffirmation of Accra commitments on transparency from all development partners to publicly disclose regular, detailed and timely aid information. While we […]
The majority of international aid donors are not publishing enough information about the money they give, undermining the effectiveness of development spending and damaging public trust, according to a new report released today by Publish What You Fund. The report comes just 2 weeks before a key international meeting on aid effectiveness in Busan, Korea. […]
Our congratulations go to Engineers Without Borders Canada who on Friday 11 November became the third NGO in the world to publish their aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative standard. This impressive development was facilitated by the Open Aid Register, a new initiative which helps NGOs become more transparent, and comes even before […]
On 26 October Italian Parliament passed a bill in the lower house which includes a commitment to ‘maximise [aid] transparency following CRS++ and IATI, if resources are available’. The acknowledgement of the value of aid transparency and the need for an international common standard from the Italian government is a positive step. ActionAid Italy have […]
EuropeAid (the Commission Directorate General which deals with development and cooperation) has published its aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Registry, demonstrating commitment to aid transparency ahead of the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 6 weeks’ time. This is a welcome development, but also comes at a critical moment as the […]
