The aid transparency movement has helped stakeholders in donor and partner countries to move from asking ‘why does aid transparency matter and to whom?’ to ‘what are the risks when there is limited aid information and who suffers from it?’. Two recent articles explain the need for transparency, coordination and better information management systems to […]
Guest post by Lydia Medland, Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) Coordinator. Over the last 10 years the right of access to information, or “freedom of information”, has spread exponentially. Laws have been passed in over 40 countries recognising that citizens have a right of access to information, international courts have ruled that citizens […]
Guest post by Martin Tisné, Director, Policy at Omidyar Network and Publish What You Fund board member. I am very fortunate to have been involved with Publish What You Fund since its launch alongside the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in 2008, at the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. That was five years ago. Publish […]
How we’re monitoring the quality of aid information published in IATI and other formats.
Guest blog by George Ingram, David Beckmann and Jim Kolbe, originally posted here. Something peculiar has happened around President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa: a famously dysfunctional Congress actually sent a constructive, bipartisan message to the president about the future of engagement with the continent and other developing countries. Two weeks ago, a group […]
Over the past few months Publish What You Fund along with some of its partners have been working on a series of blogs to explore Aid Transparency from different perspectives and for different uses. The series of blogs kicked off in March with a blog from Paul O’Brien from Oxfam America and concluded in May […]
