If you can’t report a pothole, how can you hold donors to account?
We recently attempted (and failed) to report a pothole near our office. It got us thinking about holding governments to account…
Emerging donors = emerging transparency?
Saudi Arabia “is the number one donor for aid and development in Yemen”, according to Dr Abdullah al-Rabeeah, who runs the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KS Relief). “We’re here to help.” What the impact of Saudi’s aid is, however, we can’t really know. There’s no doubt the country has a sizeable aid […]
An uneasy European consensus for development
This week in Brussels, the European Union (EU) institutions proudly launched a new ‘Consensus for Development’ that will shape their development policy for the next ten years. The European Union and its member states collectively account for just over half of global aid spending, so their position is important. Even if we just consider the […]
Aid Transparency Index: update on the methodology review
Publish What You Fund’s 2016 Aid Transparency Index reported on the results by major donors to meet the commitments made in Busan in 2011, where donors promised to open up their aid information by December 2015. With this deadline now passed, our intention is to raise the bar on aid transparency, beginning with a consultative […]
Potholes and development goals: A dispatch from Kenya’s Silicon Savannah
This blog was originally posted by the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data’s on their website on 22nd August 2016. I first came to Kenya in 2000 as a student teacher. Hardly anyone had a mobile phone and outside Nairobi, there were just one TV and one radio station. We bought computers for the school […]
A new strategy for a new development landscape
Publish What You Fund was set up in 2008 to campaign for aid transparency. We have come a long way. Donors have committed to transparency, and many are delivering. Nearly 500 organisations now publish what they fund using the open data standard of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). As a result, we estimate that […]