The first report of the UK Public Opinion Monitor, Aid to Developing Countries: Where does the UK Public Stand, shows that around 52% of the British public view UK aid as ineffective.
Published on 8th September by The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the report goes on to reveal that holding this view increased by 15% the likelihood that the respondent would also support cuts to aid spending.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is aiming to increase its transparency after the release of their annual report in June 2010, which showed too much secrecy in the foundation.
The Sunlight Foundation yesterday, 8th September, launched Clearspending.com, a site analysing how well U.S. government agencies are reporting their spending data on USASpending.gov.
A debate has ensued online after Till Brucker’s guest post on the Aid Watch blog on NGO transparency in Georgia. After having asked USAID to release budget details of NGOs operating in Georgia, he was sent the information (18 months later) with varying costs and totals blacked out.
Oxfam has just released details of every overseas project they have funded in 2009-2010; being the first big NGO in the field to do so. Now accessible online, the spreadsheet contains the title, location and allocated funds for 1070 projects.
Less than 24 hours ago Article 19 hosted ‘Transparency, Free Flow of Information and the Millennium Development Goals Conference 2010’ in London.
