The “ugly” of Aid Transparency? Information Systems
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance [View the story “The “ugly” of Aid Transparency? Information Systems” on Storify]
Aid Will Not Work Better Until All Donors Share Information
LONDON – Despite making several international transparency commitments, the vast majority of the world’s donors are still not sharing enough data about their development activities. The Aid Transparency Index (ATI), released today by Publish What You Fund, is the industry standard for assessing transparency among the top 68 aid-giving organisations, from countries including the U.S. […]
Why Interaction is publishing to IATI
On Wednesday, Publish What You Fund (PWYF) will launch its 2014 Aid Transparency Index, which ranks donors according to the amount – and quality – of the aid information they publish. As a partner, we know that every year the Index prompts a mad rush around the deadline for data collection, as donors seek to […]
The Aid Transparency Index & the Post-2015 Agenda
We are on the final count down to the 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) results being revealed. I wish our team going to DC the best of luck for a productive discussion around the results on the 8th. With such a distinguished panel they probably won’t need any luck! I’d like to take this opportunity […]
Goodbye & good luck!
Many of you will have heard the news of my recent departure from Publish What You Fund, and are hopefully spreading the word of the team’s search for a new Chief Executive. So I wanted to take the chance to use this last blog as an opportunity for reflection. When I took over two and […]
5 Back-to-school essentials for EU development cooperation
For many of us working with the EU, September certainly feels like going “back to school” following an extended summer period when most EU institutions close down. But new European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker has been hard at work over the holidays putting together his “dream team” of European Commissioners, which he announced two weeks […]