The Netherlands Ministry of International Trade and Development Cooperation have launched a new budget webpage. It is first site of its kind to offer the potential to track national budget all the way to local delivery projects, and something worth shouting about. That said, it is also perhaps not the most intuitive site, so I asked Theo […]
Guest post by George Ingram, chair of our U.S. Advisory Committee & Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. There are two new agencies publishing information to the foreign assistance dashboard: the State Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This is good news. But the question remains: Is more data always better, and for whom? Is […]
Guest post by Ruth Salmon, Research Assistant Joining the data collection team for the 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) has been an eye opening experience. The thing that struck me most is how the volume of data available for an organisation does not necessarily correlate with usability. As Publish What You Fund has been saying for […]
Yesterday, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network announced their new policy agenda, The Way Forward: A Reform Agenda for 2014 and Beyond. One of the pillars of the new policy is accountability and transparency. I was asked to discuss how the U.S. can best use IATI and the Foreign Assistance Dashboard to keep its transparency commitments. […]
Guest post by Laia Grino, Interaction. The Foreign Assistance Dashboard is about to go through a redesign process. Recognizing that it has a diverse audience with many different interests, the Dashboard team plans to consult a wide range of stakeholders, including in-country partners. For this, they deserve credit. The trick, however, will be not to fall prey […]
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has put together a great set of infograhics to increase awareness around EU aid, ‘10 things to know about EU aid‘. It highlights the relevance of the EU aid programme with 10 key facts, and is not unlike Oxfam America’s recent publication about US aid myths. Fact #4 mentions our Aid Transparency Index, saying that EU aid is […]
