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From Principles to Practice: Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund launch consultation on joined-up data standards

By Tom Orrell | Jul 18, 2016 | News

The Joined-Up Data Standards (JUDS) project is seeking feedback on a new consultation paper. The paper seeks to collect and draw on solutions to the challenges posed by incompatibility – or interoperability – between different data standards. Data has immense potential to help drive poverty eradication through efficient and effective programming and funding. However, it […]

Significant step forward achieved for transparency of humanitarian aid at the World Humanitarian Summit

By Katie Welford | May 24, 2016 | News

Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund welcome significant steps to improve the transparency of humanitarian aid taken at the World Humanitarian Summit held this week in Turkey. The Summit comes in the wake of the highest level of human suffering since the Second World War. It has produced key commitments towards greater transparency on […]

New Chair at Publish What You Fund committed to full transparency of aid by 2018

By Katie Welford | May 13, 2016 | News

Publish What You Fund is pleased to announce two new Board appointments. Giles Bolton becomes Chair, succeeding Karin Christiansen, who founded Publish What You Fund in 2008. Giles worked at the UK Department for International Development for 10 years until 2007, in countries including Kenya, Rwanda and Iraq. He is author of the book ‘Aid […]

The 2016 Aid Transparency Index is out now!

By Katie Welford | Apr 13, 2016 | News

Download the 2016 Aid Transparency Index and the U.S. Brief now

Initiative for Open Ag Funding

By Katie Welford | Feb 26, 2016 | News

We are pleased to announce a new project on Open Agricultural investment data in partnership with Development Gateway, InterAction, International Food Policy Research Institute and the Foundation Center. Food insecurity constitutes one of the world’s most pressing development needs. Although progress is being made, almost 800 million people worldwide still suffer from hunger. Investments in […]

We’re joining the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. With a commitment, and with one condition.

By Katie Welford | Sep 28, 2015 | News

Publish What You Fund is pleased to announce that it is joining the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data which is launching in New York today, International Right to Know Day. Publish What You Fund has campaigned for aid transparency since we were founded in 2009. We advocate for more and better data to track […]

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