Guest post by Paolo de Renzio, Senior Research Fellow, Open Budget Initiative If you want to fight poverty, you need to care about budgets. They are the government’s most powerful tool to meet the needs and priorities of a country and its people. Public budgets are the blueprints for how the government will raise and spend the […]
Thirty-five donor organisations and governments have so far released implementation schedules for the common standard on aid information, with at least five more plans likely to be published in the coming weeks. It is encouraging that donors representing the lion’s share of global aid flows have delivered on their Busan commitment of outlining their plans […]
Guest post by Nilmini Rubin, member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee (see bio at end). A popular newsletter, The Nelson Report, recently called former Senator Richard Lugar a “national treasure”. In my view, that is an apt description. During his 36 years in the Senate, Senator Lugar left his imprint on a […]
Trying to predict the future is a mug’s game. No one can tell what events will overtake their best laid plans. But as the New Year gets into full swing, plenty of people are doing it anyway – and not (only) because there are a lot of mugs about. If you are a government official, […]
Aid donors have begun to publish implementation schedules, showing how they will implement the common standard agreed at Busan. This includes the entirety of the IATI standard. See our previous blog for more details. Implementation schedules are being posted on the OECD-DAC website here, as they are available, and must be submitted by the end […]
(Guest blog by Krishna Sapkota, Freedom Forum) It is great to share with you that Freedom Forum has recently produced and published a study report titled ‘Aid Transparency Situation of Nepal’ as part of a wider pilot project to better understand the aid information landscape in Nepal and to make recommendations for future work to improve the availability […]
