[originally posted on the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog] Publish What You Fund has undertaken some initial analysis of aid donors’ plans to publish to the IATI component of the agreed common standard for aid information. Here, Mark Brough explains the process they went through to take a series of Excel files, convert them into a format suitable for analysis, and come to […]
Yesterday, the OECD produced an XML file containing DAC members’ annual aid flows. The file is a conversion of 2010 and 2011 data from their Creditor Reporting System (CRS) into XML format (computer-readable “mark-up” language that allows programmers to extract and present data in a comparable and accessible way). By converting their aid data to XML, […]
Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. Politicians, NGOs and activists are meeting in New York for the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Organisations all over the world are marking the occasion, drawing attention to important contributions to the gender equality movement. At Publish What You Fund, we believe gender equality and aid […]
There has been a lot of talk about humanitarian aid and where it has been going – or has not been going, as in the cases of Haiti and Syria. Last week, the Guardian reported that close to $1.5bn in aid pledged to Syria has ‘largely failed to materialised’, while NPR reported that only a fraction of the […]
[Guest post by Alan Hudson, ONE Director (Transparency & Accountability) – originally posted Feb 25th, 2013 on the ONE blog] As David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos made clear, plans for the G8 Summit are taking shape. In addition to tackling the threat of extremism and terrorist violence, and addressing issues around agriculture, food […]
A few weeks ago, Publish What You Fund signed up to the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign, which is being run by a coalition of over 100 NGOs – everyone from Oxfam and Save the Children to, well, us. Enough Food for Everyone IF is a great movement of individuals and organisations who have […]
