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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In less than two weeks, heads of states, representatives of civil society organisations, academia, businesses, the UN system and other stakeholders will be gathering at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit. The summit is the culmination of a process that took almost 3 years to complete. It began with a High Level Panel report on […]
We are pleased to announce that Publish What You Fund is joining a new coalition aimed at joining up data standards. The Joined Up Data Alliance brings together experts in development cooperation, humanitarian relief, public contracting and natural resource governance to collaborate on the development and use of data standards. Rupert Simons, CEO of Publish […]
