On January 7, 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a pivotal speech on “Development on the 21st Century”. Secretary Clinton laid out six approaches the U.S. is taking to tackle development around the world. It is notable that a number of these require great aid transparency to be achieved. Particularly perhaps the stated need to holding agencies accountable in delivering meaningful results and the stress on the importance of agency coordination to avoid duplication and projects overlapping on the field.

The log of visitors to the White House up to October of 2009 have been released.

This look inside the White House comes courtesy of the Obama administration, which released its visitor logs to the public after pressure from good government groups.

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The Sunlight Foundation, which promotes transparency in government, has done a good job of making the raw data accessible and searchable online.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said the Obama administration will share control over U.S. foreign aid with recipient countries, ending Washington’s longtime policy of "dictating" to those nations how to spend the money.

The secretary’s remarks are certain to ignite a heated debate about the role foreign governments — mostly in developing countries — should play in deciding how to spend American taxpayers’ dollars.

Belgian Karel de Grucht, the European commissioner for development, angered authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He spoke of a lack of transparency in the exploitation of mineral resources in DR Congo, corruption and lack of leadership, and urged Congolese officials to start working instead of talking too much.

ODI has released a briefing paper by Sam Moon and Tim Williamson titled "Greater aid transparency: crucial for aid effectiveness".

Research related to this paper has been funded by the International Budget Partnership and Publish What You Fund with the aim to inform and influence the International Aid Transparency Initiative, an ongoing process that is building an international standard for aid information as a follow on from the resolutions in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action.

USAID’s past experience with local institutions in Pakistan indicates that many of these local organizations are faced with institutional capacity issues and overall weaknesses in their internal controls, financial management and absorptive capacity, leading to a higher degree of risk and ultimately more audit recommendations.

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