Publish What You Fund has joined OMB Watch and over 30 other transparency organisations in urging the US government to restore funding for the Electronic Government Fund (E-Gov Fund). The letter highlights that the “E-Gov Fund has a proven track record of successful transparency projects that have delivered efficiency improvements and increased government accountability”, having previously […]
A coalition of over fifty civil society groups from twenty countries around the world today launched a campaign Make Aid Transparent, which calls on governments and other aid donors to publish more and better information about the money they give. At the centre of the campaign, whose members include ActionAid, Publish What You Fund, Transparency […]
Congratulations to Lebanon, who this week became the twentieth endorser of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). By endorsing IATI as a partner country, they have approved the IATI Accra Statement, hardening the commitment made in the Accra Agenda for Action that asks donors to provide regular, detailed and timely information on their aid. IATI […]
A report released yesterday by the Center for Global Development (CGD) has brought to light the United States’ lack of aid transparency in its activities in Pakistan. The report notes that despite widespread agreement from State Department and USAID leaders on the benefits of transparency, very little progress has been made: “Transparency has not been […]
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) released yesterday most of its country operational plans for the next four years. Following a comprehensive bilateral aid review earlier this year, the plans map out how aid will be delivered to each country DFID works in, and the monitoring and evaluation strategy up to 2015. Each plan […]
Last week was the OECD’s 50th anniversary and Brian Atwood, Chair of the DAC-OECD and former head of USAID, has discussed aid transparency in an interview with ONE. He points to how the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action have made greater aid transparency a central principle. Referring to the […]
