Guest post by John Adams, UK Department for International Development (DFID) The IATI TAG (that’s the International Aid Transparency Initiative Technical Advisory Group) met at the end of January in Montreal, kindly hosted by Canada’s Department for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). Around 120 members of the IATI community gathered for two days of […]
Guest blog by Heather Hanson, Senior Policy Advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation If you walked into the recent International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting in Montreal, you might be surprised by the crowd. Participation wasn’t limited to government representatives in suits from around the world (like me!). The TAG was a real […]
Last week, Publish What You Fund attended the IATI TAG (Technical Advisory Group) meeting in Montreal in force. How did it go? Well, it was great. A fantastic community came together to work out what we need to do to improve aid data. It constantly surprises even us how much it has grown. There was strong […]
This article was first published on the Global Partnership’s Effective Development Co-operation Blog: http://devcooperation.org The world’s largest and most influential providers of aid reaffirmed their commitment to transparency this year. A high-level panel advising on the framework to follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) called for a “data revolution”, and G8 members specifically committed […]
Next week, the IATI Technical Advisory Group (TAG) will meet in Montreal. The name is somewhat misleading though, as the TAG includes everyone active in the IATI community – both policy AND technical staff. The last TAG was almost two years ago, and the next one might not be for a while, so we’re keen […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a brute force technology exercise? Should IATI support require document screen scraping and financial management software data massaging? International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) classifications, designed to enable aid effectiveness across multiple projects, provide compelling internal information for decision making. Many of us involved in the aid and […]
