Those familiar with our work will know that every year we assess how transparent donors are in the annual Aid Transparency Index. To do this, we monitor what’s being published over a period of around three months to give a reliable snapshot of the current state of play. Last Friday, our research team were busy […]
On 17th January, the High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing released its report Too important to fail – addressing the humanitarian financing gap in the lead up to the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) on 23-24 May in Istanbul. The panel makes the strongest call yet for a commitment from aid organisations and donors to increase the transparency […]
This week saw international anti-corruption day. So what? Few of the over 100 official ‘days’ observed by the United Nations are widely celebrated. Like International Jazz Day (30 April) or International Day of Yoga (21 June), Anti-Corruption Day doesn’t make the cut. Part of the problem with corruption is that its victims are anonymous. Over 75 […]
In 2011 the Busan Partnership agreement committed providers of development co-operation to implement a common, open standard for the publication of transparent development cooperation. To monitor this commitment it was agreed that a ‘transparency indicator’ would be developed to monitor implementation of the common standard. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) was mandated […]
By Tom Orrell at Publish What You Fund & Joni Hillman at the IATI Secretariat and Development Initiatives. This blog was was originally posted on the IATI website here. Have you ever taken a train in Spain? Driven from Belfast to Dublin? Or packed the wrong adaptor for a business trip? If so, you may […]
This blog is from Laia Grino, Senior Manager of Transparency, Accountability and Results at InterAction. It was originally posted on the InterAction website here. Last week, the U.S. government released its third National Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Included in the plan is a strong commitment to improving foreign aid transparency. The commitment focuses on what […]
