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Closing data gaps that obstruct solutions to mobilising private finance for the SDGs

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With growing calls for both more and better targeted development finance to address rising global needs, private capital mobilisation (PCM) provides an essential part of the solution. For development finance institutions to reach the required scale, accurate measurement and disclosure of PCM data is necessary, so that DFIs and their stakeholders can better identify the most effective mechanisms for increasing the flow of private capital to emerging and developing economies. Gary Forster and Nancy Lee examine why Publish What You Fund is proposing a new method for better measurement and more disaggregated disclosure of mobilisation.

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How is open aid data being used?

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More organisations are now publishing more aid and development data, with richer detail than ever before. And more tools are being produced to enable a broader group of people with different interests to access the data. All this effort is not in vain. Elma Jenkins has been digging into the detail of exactly how open aid data is now being used and highlights some of the creative ways it is supporting research, policy and development practice.

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Gender equality funding data is a mess. How do we fix it?

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Many organisations have attempted to track funding for gender equality in recent years. We’ve all reached the same conclusion: the data is a mess. If we really want progress on gender equality, We need to move from measuring good intentions to measuring outcomes. We need a new approach. In this blog Alex Farley, Fionna Smyth, Mareen Buschmann, Hellen Malinga Apila propose a multi-stakeholder convening to review, discuss, and resolve the data issues.

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What’s missing from the World Bank’s Draft Gender Strategy? Transparency

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As the World Bank prepares to finalise its new gender strategy, we ask how you can identify World Bank projects targeting gender equality, their location, sector, amount of funding and most importantly their impact. In short, you can’t. We set out why this matters for accountability and how the Bank should address the transparency gaps in its gender strategy and implementation plan.

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Collaborative UK aid transparency commitment renewed

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The Bond Transparency Working Group has been collaborating with the FCDO to push for more and better transparency in the UK aid budget. They have been successful in updating the UK’s aid transparency commitment. In this blog, Elma Jenkins looks at what this means for the UK’s aid transparency and where more work is still needed.

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2023 in review: what just happened?

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2023 has seen some challenging times for the international development community, but also some glimmers of hope. At Publish What You Fund we’ve remained focused on encouraging aid and development agencies to be more transparent about their planning, spending and results. Here we roundup what we’ve been working on over the past year, and the progress that’s been made.