The World Bank has increased access to its data by launching the World Bank Finances website; the newest addition to the Bank’s open data site. This is a welcome and very encouraging development in the wake of the World Bank’s first publication to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in May. The website includes detailed […]
It has been announced that one third (33.05%) of all reported Official Development Assistance (ODA)* will be published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) before the key HLF-4 meeting in Korea later this year. This was confirmed by the release from IATI of a further five implementation schedules last week. Donors who become signatories […]
Big congratulations go to Development Initiatives Poverty Research (DIPR), who yesterday became the fourth organisation, and first NGO, to publish their data in an IATI compliant format. They have published very detailed data on the Hewlett Foundation funded aidinfo programme, and their implementation schedule includes dates for later publications of their data. Later this year […]
A great development today: Kenya has become the first African government to launch an Open Data portal. The data catalogue includes a large amount of detailed spending data, including the audited public expenditures for 2002/3-2008/9, and the Community Development Fund. The fact that Kenya has published such detailed spending data is good news from the […]
An independent review of Australian aid effectiveness has made recommendations for greater transparency of Australian aid. The Australian cabinet has agreed, in principle, to the vast majority of the recommendations, including the implementation of a Transparency Charter that will be issued at the end of this year. The review notes that the Australian aid program […]
International development campaign group ONE this week launched their Agriculture Accountability Report which provides a “principle-by-principle and country-by-country assessment of progress against both financial and non-financial AFSI pledges, focusing on the G7 and the European Commission (EC).” http://www.one.org/c/international/hottopic/3934/ Key recommendations include “improvement of transparency and accountability of delivering on promises by agreeing to a unified […]
