Repost from Florence Kuteesa, former budget director of Uganda. A global aid transparency movement, bringing together several initiatives with a shared vision[1], has received increasing interest and attention since the 2005 Paris Declaration for Aid Effectiveness. The main thrust of the movement is to make information about aid spending easier to access and understand by […]
Reposted from Owen Barder’s blog In this post, I’m going to look at the next steps, particularly focusing on how we can provide meaningful transparency for citizens in developing countries. There is a lot of detail below, so for busy readers here is a summary of the proposed ten steps for aid transparency. 1. Donors […]
Reposted from Owen Barder’s blog. The 8-point summary Here are what I think are the eight most important things I’ve learned in the last three years about transparency in general, and aid transparency in particular: To make a difference, transparency has to be citizen-centred not donor-centred. Citizen-centred transparency would allow citizens of developing countries to […]
Publish What You Fund has joined a coalition of organisations and over 2000 individuals in urging Congress leaders to protect US government spending on transparency programs. The letter, sent by the Sunlight Foundation, expresses “concerns over proposed budget reductions that would effectively eliminate important government transparency programs”. The danger is that new transparency sites such […]
Users of the AidData database will soon be able to export details of aid activities in the new international aid reporting standard. The database will still run queries on activities by aid donor, sector, and country as before, but now be exportable in the common standard which was finalized by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) […]
OpenAid, a fundamental pillar of Sweden’s recent aid reforms, has been launched today. The site puts aid transparency into action, demonstrating what is possible when governments publish their aid information. The OpenAid site illustrates how raw data on aid activities can be turned into accessible and usable visualisation, allowing the public to see how their […]
