Meeting the information needs of partner countries
Seven organisations have written to the Chair of the OECD DAC, Erik Solheim, asking him to support a proposal to ensure aid can be mapped onto partner country budgets.
World Statistics Day: A statement on humanitarian aid transparency
Today is world statistics day and Publish What You Fund is renewing its call for aid transparency. Specifically we are asking for all humanitarian aid to be published to the International Aid Transparency (IATI) by the end of 2016. Our CEO, Rupert Simons, talks about this ambition in his statement at the World Humanitarian Summit Global Consultations in […]
Road to 2015: The Home Straight
The 31st of December 2015 marks the deadline that donors set themselves to make their aid fully transparent. The Road to 2015 campaign was launched over a year ago to push donors to meet their commitment and we are now entering the home straight. But we are not taking our foot off the pedal. To coincide with the […]
3 months to go!
All donor agencies have three months left to uphold their Busan commitment to make aid transparent by the end of December 2015. We believe this is an important period and a crucial year to show evidence that this 2011 promise was not only rhetoric but can actually lead to significant progress and make development more […]
A Sad State of Affairs: is transparency a solution?
This is a guest post by Rodney Bent, Independent Consultant With much hoopla in December 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, aka the QDDR. This substantial document, 90 pages worth, was intended to replicate for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development what […]
Aid and open budgets: what can development partners do?
This is a guest post by Claire Schouten, International Budget Partnership The Open Budget Survey 2015 just came out and it shares important findings for transparent, participatory and accountable development. In its fifth edition since 2006, the survey covers 102 countries and is the only independent, comparative measure of budget transparency and accountability. So what does it […]