Paul James

New initiative to assess and strengthen transparency among public development banks in Latin America

By Paul James and Ryan Anderton | Jul 28, 2026 | News

Publish What You Fund and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean – have announced the launch of a new initiative to assess and enhance transparency across public development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean. This 18-month project will engage a select group of public development banks throughout the region to improve the disclosure of information relating to their institution and the projects they finance.

Is the MDB Joint Report on private capital mobilisation sliding into irrelevance? Our updated scorecard

By Paul James | Jun 4, 2026 | Blog

The long awaited Joint Report, which compiles the private capital mobilisation (PCM) achieved by multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, was published last month. Our recent research highlighted that reforming the measurement and transparency of PCM are critical to maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of mobilisation. We prepared a scorecard focusing on six improvements that we were hoping to see in the new Joint Report. So how well did it do? This blog reviews the Joint Report, highlighting the key trends in PCM and assessing progress against our scorecard.

Any progress on measuring and disclosing private capital mobilisation? An MDB scorecard

By Paul James | Mar 30, 2026 | Blog

Private capital mobilisation (PCM) has become central to the case multilateral development banks (MDBs) make about their development impact. The way it is measured and disclosed matters more than ever. That’s why we’ve prepared an MDB scorecard to assess progress on our recommended improvements.

CABEI and Publish What You Fund sign agreement to strengthen transparency

By Paul James and Ryan Anderton | Jan 13, 2026 | News

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration and Publish What You Fund have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, marking a strategic step toward strengthening the Bank’s transparency and institutional openness.

Watch now: Launch of the 2025 DFI Transparency Index

By Paul James | Jun 30, 2025 | Events

Catch up on the launch of the 2025 DFI Transparency Index – our latest assessment of how the world’s leading development finance institutions are performing on transparency – in partnership with ODI Global. Watch now to hear from DFIs, civil society and private sector representatives and explore how we can improve financial and impact transparency in climate and development finance.

DFI Transparency Index 2025: updated methodology and timeline

By Paul James | Aug 15, 2024 | Blog, News

Work on the second DFI Transparency Index is underway, in preparation for launch in July 2025. The Index ranks the transparency of the world’s leading development finance institutions (DFIs) and encourages improvement. We recently completed a methodology review, involving stakeholder consultation, to improve the rigour of the DFI Transparency Index, while maintaining comparability between the 2023 and 2025 editions. Here we set out the changes that have been made to the methodology, including the addition of new climate finance indicators.