Guest post by Ben Leo, Center for Global Development, originally posted here. Next month, Publish What You Fund (PWYF) will release its latest Aid Transparency Index, which assesses how well 67 development organizations open their books to scrutiny from their taxpayers and recipient country governments and citizens. USAID ranked 27th last year, a pretty disappointing result for the lead US […]
“A huge weight of analysis that in turn drives a large volume of money for the world’s poorest people rests on a flimsy, uncertain, patchy body of data.” That is the damning conclusion of a new report from Development Initiatives. The boldly titled Investments to End Poverty stands out from the crowd of ever-more-ambitious development programs by starting […]
Responsibility for running the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) recently changed to a new secretariat, after four years of DFID hosting. The department will be a hard act to follow as the UK Government has been a global leader on aid transparency, both in terms of releasing its own information but also its generous financial and administrative […]
Mark Brough will be presenting at the Open Knowledge Conference on Monday 16 September. This blog is in advance of the event and cross-posted here. Aid, climate finance, extractives, government budgets, humanitarian aid, contracts and organisation identifiers: there are now a large range of initiatives to open up data on developmental resource flows. On 16th September at OKCon, we […]
Guest post by Michael Roberts, Groupsia On August 24-25, 2013, Citizen Attaché (an Engineers Without Borders supported venture) organized Canada’s first foreign aid data hackathon, a two-day event hosted at the HUB Ottawa’s co-working space. It attracted more than 40 participants from different Canadian cities. This included participants from Canada’s international development sector such as […]
Guest post by Jennifer Lentfer, Oxfam America – originally posted here. Three US government agencies released loads of data on their foreign aid programs last month. So what happens when a Parliamentarian or a Minister of a country receiving US development assistance wants to use that information? Yesterday I sat down with the Hon. Albert Kan-Dapaah, a former government […]
