Guest post by Paola Palacios and Sandra Patargo, Transparencia Mexicana The first meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation starts today in Mexico. This meeting can and should be a window of opportunity for the governments and organisations to commit and comply with specific mechanisms to make all aid flows more transparent and accountable. […]
Guest post by Paul O’Brien, Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America I wonder if USAID’s Raj Shah is reading Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”. Op-ed writers in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times think the book may help progressives rediscover their mojo, and help all sides overcome false […]
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first high level meeting tomorrow in Mexico City. Established following the Fourth High Level Forum in Busan, South Korea in 2011, the Global Partnership aims to make development cooperation more effective. More than 1300 representatives from governments, civil society, multilateral organisations and the […]
Guest post by Mamadou Honadia, Chair of the Adaptation Fund Board The Adaptation Fund has published its project data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) registry today. In making its data public and searchable on IATI’s platform, the Fund joins 234 other organizations, including the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the Gates Foundation, that […]
Next week, the world’s development actors will meet at the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico. The meeting is an opportunity to kick-start efforts to ensure governments’ transparency commitments on development cooperation are met by 2015. Along with more than 50 other organisations, networks and individuals, we have written advocacy […]
Yesterday, Oxfam America launched Foreign Aid 101 – a quick and easy guide to understanding US foreign aid that aims to clear up some long-held misconceptions about American aid. Encouragingly, it said that most Americans (80%) hold the view that developed countries have “a moral responsibility to work to reduce hunger and severe poverty in poor countries.” But most […]
