Brian Atwood, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), has confirmed the organisation’s strong commitment to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). At a speech last night in London, Atwood impressed the crowd by saying the DAC is behind the aid transparency movement. He asserted that as much as 30% of aid is lost on transaction costs, […]
Publish What You Fund will participate in a high-profile event being held at the World Bank Spring Meetings tomorrow. The event will gather leading ministers from the g7+ group of fragile countries, development partners, representatives of civil society, and the private sector, to discuss how to translate the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States […]
Government and civil society representatives from 53 countries around the world, including Publish What You Fund, will meet in Brasilia for the first annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership – a new global initiative that brings together government, civil society, donors, and the private sector to promote transparent, effective, and accountable governments. The Open […]
Today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the First Global Assembly for Budget Transparency, Accountability, and Participation CSO’s from recipient counties will join forces with international organisations including Greenpeace, the ONE Campaign, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) to call for more open and accountable government budgeting. This assembly, held in the final days before […]
A coalition of over fifty civil society groups from twenty countries around the world today launched a campaign Make Aid Transparent, which calls on governments and other aid donors to publish more and better information about the money they give. At the centre of the campaign, whose members include ActionAid, Publish What You Fund, Transparency […]
Last week was the OECD’s 50th anniversary and Brian Atwood, Chair of the DAC-OECD and former head of USAID, has discussed aid transparency in an interview with ONE. He points to how the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action have made greater aid transparency a central principle. Referring to the […]
