Transparency: What’s next for US data?
Dr Tessie San Martin, CEO of Plan International USA, outlines what the U.S. must do next for aid transparency.
US aid transparency: Looking back but pressing forward
This blog post was written by George Ingram, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund. Over the past decade aid transparency has moved from being a little-known concept to the norm. The value of making timely and accurate aid data publicly available is now widely accepted […]
Reviewing the methodology of the Aid Transparency Index
The Index methodology has remained substantially unchanged since 2013. This review is an opportunity for Publish What You Fund to ensure that the Index remains relevant for all development stakeholders. The Index methodology should reflect and collect the data needed for decision making, accountability and monitoring purposes. In order to do this, we are opening up a consultation period, where we invite the wider community to comment on our proposed changes. This will include the opportunity to provide feedback on the methodology itself, the relevance of the indicators used, the weighting system and new areas we’d like to work on.
How can data help end hunger?
Senior Advocacy Officer James Coe and partners at the OpenAg Funding Initiative created this presentation for the GODAN Summit, outlining the aims of the project.
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 […]
As local as possible and as international as necessary: Bringing an open development philosophy to humanitarian aid
This is a guest blog post by Roderick Besseling, Digital Strategist at Cordaid and IATI CSO Working Group Co-Chair With the Grand Bargain agreement and Charter 4 Change pledges made and signed earlier this year, it looks like the humanitarian sector is addressing some of its biggest challenges head-on. In particular, it is taking the necessary steps […]