Gates Foundation to improve transparency
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.
Sunlight Foundation shows real levels of U.S. transparency
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.
Who is responsible for USAID transparency?
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 opens up aid data
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.
Article 19 host successful conference on transparency in the MDGs
Less than 24 hours ago Article 19 hosted ‘Transparency, Free Flow of Information and the Millennium Development Goals Conference 2010’ in London.
Andrew Mitchell steps up UK commitment to aid transparency
Andrew Mitchell, UK Secretary of State for International Development, has sent an enthusiastic response to our letter which followed-up from the 7th July IATI meeting.