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 […]
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 […]
