The G8 Communiqué released from the meeting of country leaders in Deauville today places emphasis on the need for increased aid transparency. The necessity of accessible and usable information on aid is highlighted, and the High Level Forum at the end of the year has been set as a milestone for advancing the efforts of […]
The BetterAid CSO platform has urged the G8 nations to commit to full aid transparency at the Deauville summit this week. Aid transparency has been identified as a particular area of concern and the coalition of more than 1000 civil society organisations has stated the importance of sending “a strong political message to the Fourth High-Level […]
The latest session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), held in Budapest last week, contained some positive statements surrounding aid transparency. The session was a declaration between the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the European Parliament (EP) on the Fourth High Level Forum (HLF4) on aid effectiveness in Busan this November. […]
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) has shown a commitment to aid transparency by launching a new tool on its website which allows users to view information on aid flows. The site shows statistics on Norwegian aid by country, sector, managing partner and time period. It organises this into visualisations, making it easy for […]
In a statement issued by the White House and Number 10 Downing Street today, President Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron set out their priorities for the U.S. – UK partnership for Global Development. They state the importance of aid transparency and note the significance of the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan at […]
An annual Accountability Report released ahead of the forthcoming G8 Summit in Deauville, France, states that “the G8 is on a renewed path of transparent follow-up of its commitments, and is obviously concerned with the quality of its aid and the outcomes of this aid.” (Deauville Accountability Report, p.2) The report hails the efforts the […]
