Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda
Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda: Evidence in aligning aid information with recipient country budgets
IATI Letters to Ministers
Ahead of the 7 July International Aid Transparency Initiative Steering Committee meeting in Paris, CSOs from around the world urged development ministers to support an aid transparency standard which ensured more effective foreign assistance. On 28 July CSOs sent follow-up letters encouraging IATI signatories to continue their participation in advance of the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in November 2011.
Shah: USAID needs major reform
Rajiv Shah, director of the U.S. government’s Agency for International Development, USAID, once more promised major reform of the aid agency in a speech at the National Press Club last Friday, 18th June.
More transparency in U.S. aid to Pakistan?
Earlier this month, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry urged Ambassador Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, to make U.S. objectives, plans and disbursements of aid to Pakistan more transparent.
Open Data essential to UK foreign policy reform
Chatham House has released a report, ‘Organizing for Influence: UK Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty’, which highlights open data as a necessary component of a much-needed UK foreign policy reform.
UNDCF publish paper reviewing accountability and transparency
The UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) has published a background paper in preparation for the DCF High-level Symposium being held in Helsinki on 3–4 June 2010. The paper is a review of progress in international and national mutual accountability and transparency on development cooperation and praises the work of Publish What You Fund. It includes a review of progress on international and national-level mutual accountability and transparency and what should be the next steps taken by the international community to accelerate progress on these issues.