In a high level meeting taking place at the U.S. State Department today and launched by Secretary Clinton and Brazilian Foreign Minister Patriota, ministers from nearly 60 countries join representatives from more than 40 civil society organisations to discuss best practices, tools, technologies and methodologies to enhance open government, including aid transparency. The event is […]
The first handover of the Make Aid Transparent petition signed by 5012 people from 115 countries took place at a crucial meeting of aid officials at the headquarters of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris yesterday. The co-Chairs of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, Talaat Abdel Malek and Bert Koenders, […]
The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) has recently released a position paper setting out what CABRI sees as sufficient levels of aid transparency in order for aid to work better in African countries. The paper considers aid transparency as ‘…an indispensible pillar for the achievement of sustainable development in Africa’, highlighting its relevance for […]
UK Prime Minister, David Cameron on June 13 stressed the importance of aid transparency in a speech to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation conference. “Incredible as it may seem, just 12 months ago government did not publish details of how our development money was spent. We’ve changed that. Today, people all around the […]
On June 23 the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that is has become the 20th signatory to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), demonstrating the Fund’s commitment to aid transparency. Becoming a signatory to IATI means that the Global Fund, along with other major donors, will publish its aid information in […]
Ten organisations, including Publish What You Fund, have this week praised US congressional and administration efforts to improve federal financial transparency. In a letter sent on June 21st, the organisations state that the recently introduced Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2011 (or DATA Act), and President Obama’s June 13, 2011, Executive Order would transform […]
