Our new report shows a troubling lack of transparency among philanthropic foundations that pledged to increase direct funding to local organisations. Despite commitments made in 2022 through the Donor Statement on Supporting Locally Led Development, the vast majority have failed to report targets or progress.
Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring our new training on using aid data, details of where to find USAID data, our new programme to review the transparency of UK aid, plus the latest news and publications on aid and development statistics, US foreign assistance, climate finance and development finance transparency.
Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring our latest report which compares leading donor pledges on local funding with evidence of increases in resources to local organisations, a chance to catch up on our discussion with leading experts on private capital mobilisation, plus a bumper round up of news and reports from around the sector.
Many bilateral donors have signed up to international agreements to take a more locally led approach and transfer a greater share of resources to local partners. But our new study finds that many of the same donors are not sharing any practical evidence of increased local funding. Commitments Without Accountability highlights that four out of five donors do not have localisation strategies or clear definitions, targets, or methods for measuring progress in funding shifts.
our new report and event on how to improve the measurement and disclosure of private capital mobilisation, and why this is an urgent issue for development finance institutions and multilateral development banks.
Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring the 2024 Aid Transparency Index launch and results, plus news on the timeline and introduction of climate finance indicators to the 2025 DFI Transparency Index.
