This blog post was written by David Duffeck, Senior Program Associate at InterAction and was placed on their website on Monday 11th July 2016. Although the world economy has grown for 54 out of the past 55 years, almost 800 million people today still suffer from hunger. Millions more live in poverty. Smarter investments in agriculture […]
This blog was originally posted by ONE Germany here Das Thema Transparenz hat in den letzten Jahren international und hierzulande an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Unterzeichnung der „Open Data Charta“ 2013 auf dem G8-Gipfel in Lough Erne war ein wichtiger erster Meilenstein und dass Transparenz und Rechenschaftslegung in der neuen Agenda 2030 als Kernprinzipien einer wirksamen […]
The findings of the 2016 Aid Transparency Index reveal that, yet again, very little progress has been made by organisations in the publication of results – especially when it comes to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Results are crucial. They allow for the impact of aid to be measured, outcomes evaluated, and best practices to […]
This blog post originally appeared on BlogActiv.eu. If – as the UK Prime Minister David Cameron is finding out – a week is a long time in politics, then five years can appear a lifetime when you don’t have the information you need. The European landscape has changed significantly over this period. Who could have […]
5 March was International Open Data Day. 6 March was Mother’s Day in the UK and Ireland. Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day, a public holiday in many countries including Russia. We already know that ‘Poverty is Sexist’, as ONE’s new report puts it. But where does data come in? The answer is because […]
Development fashions go through predictable stages. At first, breathless blog posts proclaim the idea: budget support, microfinance, laptops. Soon, governments and funders are jumping over themselves to adopt the idea while wise commentators note that it is not the answer to everything. In stage three, the idea falters and the proponents bleat “but we never […]
