• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Publish What You FundPublish What You Fund

The Global Campaign for Aid and Development Transparency

  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook

NEWSLETTER

CONTACT

  • Why it matters
    • Why transparency matters
    • The Story of Aid Transparency
    • What you can do
    • Case studies
  • Aid Index
    • 2022 Index
    • Comparison Chart
    • Methodology
    • Index Archive
    • Tools
  • DFI Index
    • DFI Transparency Index 2023
    • DFI Research
    • DFI Transparency Tool
    • FAQs
    • Project Advisory Board
  • Our Work
    • Women’s Economic Empowerment
    • Localization
    • Gender Financing
    • Humanitarian Transparency
    • US Foreign Assistance
    • Data Use
    • IATI Decipher
    • Improving UK Aid Transparency
    • Webinars
    • Work Under Development
  • News
    • Reports
    • News
    • Events
    • Blog
  • About Us
    • Board
    • Team
    • Our transparency
    • Our Funders
    • Jobs
    • Annual Reports
    • Friends of…
    • FAQs
Show Search
Hide Search
Home / Archives for Rupert Simons

Rupert Simons

blog

If you can’t report a pothole, how can you hold donors to account?

By Rupert Simons and Elise Dufief | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog

We recently attempted (and failed) to report a pothole near our office. It got us thinking about holding governments to account…

blog

Emerging donors = emerging transparency?

By Rupert Simons | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog

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 […]

blog

An uneasy European consensus for development

By Rupert Simons | Jun 9, 2017 | Blog

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 […]

blog

Aid Transparency Index: update on the methodology review

By Rupert Simons | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog

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 […]

blog

Potholes and development goals: A dispatch from Kenya’s Silicon Savannah

By Rupert Simons | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog

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 […]

blog

A new strategy for a new development landscape

By Rupert Simons | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog

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 […]

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

NEWS Topics

Africa Agriculture Aid transparency Aid Transparency Index Australia Budget ID Canada China Climate Change Data Revolution Data use Data Visualisation Development Finance institutions DFI Spotlight DFI Transparency Tool European Commission Financing for Development France Freedom of Information Gender Germany GPEDC Humanitarian Impact International Aid Transparency Initiative Japan Joined-up data Kenya Letters MDGs Newsletter OECD Open data Open government Press Releases Publish What You Fund Road to 2015 Sustainable Development Goals Sweden UK United Nations US Webinar Women's Economic Empowerment World Bank

Twitter

  • Starting now! Is USAID’s localization mission falling short? Join @sallyppaxton in conversation with @Devex… https://t.co/riMxuVGi4Y
    Mar 29, 2023
  • Join us in one hour when @sallyppaxton will be discussing “Is USAID’s localization mission falling short?” with… https://t.co/GLP8VEsd4z
    Mar 29, 2023
  • This @icai_uk report also calls for the Home Office to be more deliberate, urgent and transparent in how it address… https://t.co/3RNzVeeq5w
    Mar 29, 2023
FOLLOW US
  • Contact Us
  • Copyright
  • Privacy Policy
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook

Publish What You Fund. China Works, 100 Black Prince Road, London, SE1 7SJ
UK Company Registration Number 07676886 (England and Wales); Registered Charity Number 1158362 (England and Wales)