Where is the EU on the Road to 2015?
We now have just six months to go until the deadline for donors to fully open up their aid information so we’re looking at how EU donors are progressing.
Two must reads this week
There’s a lot of great research published about development and I find it hard to keep up, as the pile of reading on my desk grows higher and higher. If you’re short on time this week (like me) then I recommend putting these two at the top of your pile – ONE’s DATA Report and Charles Kenny’s essay on the SDGs.
The reality of aid in Spain – Using data for greater aid transparency and accountability
This is a guest post by Saya Saulière and Leonardo Pérez from Oxfam Intermón. Last January Oxfam Intermon, the Spanish affiliate of Oxfam, launched a new website on aid transparency and monitoring (www.realidadayuda.org/en). We are pleased to announce that most of the contents of the website are now available in English. For the last 20 […]
Financing for Development – stuck in the mud?
This post has been written by Publish What You Fund’s CEO Rupert Simons and Head of Policy and Advocacy Jeannet Lingán. Two months remain until the third international conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) in Addis Ababa. The conference is intended to agree actions in the implementation of unfinished past financing for development commitments (Monterrey […]
UK elections 2015: An open opportunity
There’s now just one week to go until the general election here in the UK. We’ve been looking at the party manifestos and are pleased to see a cross-party awareness of the importance of open data. At the same time, the manifestos are lacking in specific details on what will be done to further the […]
Aligning aid and budgets: A call to OECD DAC
Over the last few months, we’ve been working with five donor partners (Canada DFATD, DFID, UNDP, USAID and the World Bank) to pilot the integration of aid with partner country budgets in five countries. We have found this approach to be successful in mapping aid to country budgets, in order to create a full picture of the […]