An interesting contribution to the AidWatch blog by Till Bruckner, ‘Secret NGO Budgets: Publish what you spend’ highlights a lack of aid transparency of American NGOs in Georgia which runs even deeper than a lack of proactive disclosure.
Yesterday, 25th May, saw the launch of the ONE campaign’s Data Report 2010, in which aid transparency emerged as a central theme. ‘Monitoring the G8 promise to Africa’, the report summarizes countries’ promises of development assistance and progress towards fulfilling these pledges in the last year.
A major Canadian report, ‘A Time to Act: Implementing the ODA Accountability Act, A Canadian CSO Agenda for Aid Reform’ was launched today, 26th May 2010 by The Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CICC).
‘21st Century Aid: Recognising success and tackling failure’ is a briefing paper released today, 20th May by Oxfam. Setting out what it says on the tin, aid transparency is recognised as central to increasing aid effectiveness.
‘The Coalition: our programme for government’ was released today, 20th May 2010. We welcome the new government’s focus on increasing aid transparency as set out in Chapter 18 (p.22) on International Development, which starts by introducing its priority to ‘ensure much greater transparency and scrutiny of aid spending to deliver value for money for British taxpayers and to maximise the impact of our aid budget’.
The Aid Transparency Movement, an article published by David Sasaki in Global Voices, provides a clear and concise overview of the necessity of aid transparency and how far the movement has come to date. He draws together the organisations and initiatives which have contributed to the global campaign for more and better aid data disclosure, resulting in a useful reference for both the layman and the expert.
