As you might imagine, as soon as one year’s Aid Transparency Index (ATI) is finalised and out of the door – or on our site – we turn our minds to the next year that lies ahead. The launch always seems like a date far away at that point, but as this is our fourth […]
It is almost two months since I started working at Publish What You Fund. The intensity of my induction has been proportionate to the level of expertise the organisation has accumulated since it was founded – and that is significant! My first weeks started with our Aid Transparency Index (ATI) being cited multiple times by U.S. pundits […]
Guest post by Martin Akerman, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) In line with our commitment under the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) plans to release quarterly updates to its implementation schedule and is on track to be compliant with the standards set by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), […]
Guest post by Till Bruckner, Transparify Over the past two decades, support by Western donors has led to an explosion in the number of think tanks in developing countries. Conventional wisdom has it that such think tanks strengthen democracy and improve the policy formulation process. They are thought to enrich public and political debates by […]
Guest post by Amy Bennett at OpenTheGovernment.org, to mark the beginning of Sunshine Week in Washington, D.C. For years US civil society organizations like mine and many of our coalition partners have been calling attention to the delays, mind-boggling technical barriers, and bureaucratic resistance to openness that contribute to making the US Freedom of Information Act […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a threat to the development status quo or an opportunity to break through the “dead aid” narrative? The problem with transparency is that it usually refers to the other guy. Politicians want governments to be transparent. Donors want beneficiaries to be transparent. Transparency is a threatening concept. […]
