The shift to Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives means aid transparency is set to emerge as an area of common ground. As Representative John Boehner (R-OH) said in July this year, “The American people […] deserve to be a part of an open and transparent process”. Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) highlighted just […]
Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institute argues that the benefit of aid transparency far outweighs the cost in his new paper ‘Transparency: Changing the Accountability, Engagement and Effectiveness of Aid.’ Kharas points to the ‘3Ws of transparency’: What is being funded and to what end, who is funding it, and where it is located. Kharas […]
The World Bank Group and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have partnered to make the aid information we have more accessible. Aidflows has mapped aid money as it goes from donor to recipient. This initiative is part of the World Bank’s ongoing efforts to enhance the open access to data and information on development aid. Although […]
Publish What You Fund welcomes the essay on foreign affairs by Hilary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, who has emphasized greater coordination in U.S. foreign assistance. Clinton’s essay comes in anticipation of the eagerly awaited Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) tipped to be released next month. Clinton alludes to the importance of using partner […]
Publish What You Fund has developed an Aid Transparency Assessment. This is the first global assessment for aid transparency and we plan to produce more in the future.
20th October is World Statistics Day. AidInfo have demonstrated the value of statistics in poverty alleviation with a blog which points to Publish What You Fund’s forthcoming Aid Transparency Assessment as an example of the essential and enlightening nature of data. Read below or on their new-look site.
