Less than two weeks before development leaders meet in Mexico to review global progress in making aid more effective, a report has found that donors are not yet delivering on their promise to publish better information about aid. Produced by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), the ‘Making Development Co-operation More Effective’ report measures […]
Last week, the South Korean Government in Seoul announced it will join the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) – the first being in charge of grants and the second in charge of loans – will both join IATI by 2015. Rachel Rank, […]
Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies held an event to discuss aid effectiveness, transparency, and accountability in the U.S. Congressman Ted Poe, one of the key authors of the 2013 Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act, opened the event by highlighting the importance of the Aid Transparency Index as the only measure of donor transparency. A panel […]
Today sees the launch of a new global campaign, Stop Secret Contracts, calling on world leaders to end secrecy in public contracting. The campaign is coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, and currently has over 30 organisational signatories including Global Witness, Integrity Action, the International Budget Partnership, the Sunlight Foundation and Transparency International. The need […]
The 360 Giving project, which campaigns for greater transparency in grant-making, has launched a prototype standard to improve transparency of UK grant data. The initiative’s aim is that 80 per cent of grants made by UK charities, foundations and other grant-makers, and 50 per cent by number and/or volume, will be reported as open data to agreed […]
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