Update (4th April): We’ve received replies to eight letters already. Read the replies here. On 9th February, a meeting of the International Aid Transparency Initiative Steering Committee in Paris will agree the final details of the global standard for publishing aid information. In advance of this meeting, 35 civil society organisations from around the world […]
This week, Eurodad and its members urged the European Commission to ensure Multinational Companies (MNCs) report their Financial Information on a country-by-country basis to achieve greater financial transparency and impede tax evasion in developing countries. At present there are no regulations in place to ensure that companies operating in the EU have to disclose financial […]
On 11th January Interaction relaunched their ‘HaitiAidMap’. The site brings transparency to the relief and recovery effort in Haiti by pulling together information on where aid money is going, and where NGOs are working. HaitiAidMap provides up-to-date and accurate information on 77 NGOs and 491 projects operating in the country. With all this information in […]
Richard Manning, chair of IDS, former chair of the OECD DAC, and peer reviewer of our Aid Transparency Assessment, urges donors to “step up action on the transparency of their own aid delivery” in a contribution to the German Marshall Fund blog in December 2010. Manning advocates increased transparency, accountability and response to local performance […]
On 9th December Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Assessment was presented at Brookings in Washington, D.C. We were joined by Ruth Levine of USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning, Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, Liberian finance minister, and Daniel Kaufmann, Brookings senior fellow for a panel […]
UN OCHA in December released data on humanitarian aid flows in an accessible and structured format. Its Financial Tracking Service (FTS) allows users to create custom searches and then get the results out via XML, as well as RSS and Excel. OCHA has recognised the value of opening up its data and releasing it in […]
