World Bank contracts will be available online as part of a global initiative to fight corruption and get governments to disclose their deals with private companies. In Johannesburg this week for the first Open contracting initiative meeting, Sanjay Pradhan, vice-president of the World Bank Institute said the organisation would “walk the talk”, ensuring its own contracts are disclosed […]
Dutch NGO HIVOS is the first major development organisation outside of the UK to publish their data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Releasing its entire project related information in accordance to the internationally agreed standard, the publication of ‘open data’ enables others to verify and compare activities of development organizations, governments and multilateral institutions. HIVOS, a […]
Last night a live debate was hosted by the Guardian and Google on data censorship, foreign aid and international development. Moderated by Data Store editor Simon Rogers, the panel included: Douglas Alexander, Labour MP Rachel Rank, Publish What You Fund Salil Tripathi, Director of policy at the Institute for Human Rights and Business Ian Goldin, Director of […]
The United States has a long way to go in improving policies that support shared global prosperity, according to a Center for Global Development (CGD) index released a week before the US presidential debate on foreign policy. Still the world’s largest economy, with GDP more than twice that of number two China, the United States […]
Coverage online Huffington Post: George Ingram – Aid Transparency: Will Obama and Romney Walk the Walk? Devex: Some progress but aid still not transparent Wall Street Journal: Study Says Development Aid Remains Opaque Despite Progress Guardian: World aid data: every country ranked for transparency Reuters: EU states lagging in aid transparency – watchdog Also carried […]
Background In early 2012, the OECD DAC Working Party on Development Finance Statistics (WP-STAT) and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) developed a framework for the common standard for publishing aid information. This framework built upon the commitments donors made at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) in Busan and was finally agreed by all participants in June 2012. The approach […]
