Ryan Anderton

How transparent are climate funds?

By Ryan Anderton and Alex Tilley | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog

Multilateral climate funds play a crucial role in channelling significant portions of climate finance and will be key in efforts to meet the new $300 billion goal. But what do we know about how this climate finance is deployed, who receives it and the impact it’s having? To gain an insight into the transparency of these funds we have investigated the four largest multilateral climate funds: the Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility, Climate Investment Funds, and Adaptation Fund.

How transparent is DFI climate finance?

By Ryan Anderton | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog

Development finance institutions (DFIs) are increasingly pivotal in the climate finance landscape. As they channel more resources to climate finance, and prepare for a new global goal for low- and middle-income countries, Ryan Anderton investigates what exactly we know about current DFI climate investments. In short, he finds a messy picture. Enhanced transparency is crucial if we want to ensure that climate finance is valid, accountable and, most importantly, effective.

Watch the launch of the DFI Transparency Index

By Ryan Anderton | Jan 26, 2023 | Events, News

Catch up on the launch of the first DFI Transparency Index on 25 January 2023 and hear the views of DFIs, CSOs, shareholders and government on the findings and the future.

If DFIs are truly committed to openness and accountability they should publish all environmental and social documentation

By Ryan Anderton | Jan 20, 2022 | Blog

This blog examines the importance of ESG and accountability to communities – the third component of our DFI Transparency Tool. It reviews how the rights-based approach for access to information has affected the ESG disclosure of development finance institutions. It welcomes the shift towards presumption of disclosure from DFIs, and discusses why a commitment to pro-active disclosure of all ESG information is needed for openness and accountability to the public and project-affected communities.

Vacancy: Research Assistant – DFI Transparency Initiative

By Ryan Anderton | Dec 2, 2021 | News

Publish What You Fund is looking for a detail-oriented, numerate Research Assistant to support our work on development finance institution (DFI) transparency. Salary: £27,000 – 30,000 depending on experience. Fixed term contract (12 months)

Watch now: DFI Transparency Initiative findings on financial intermediaries

By Ryan Anderton | Jul 22, 2021 | Events, News

As part of our DFI Transparency Initiative we held a webinar presenting the findings from our fifth work stream on the transparency of the Financial Intermediary investments of development finance institutions (DFIs).