Read Karin Christiansen’s response to the U.S. MDG Strategy
Karin Christiansen, Director of Publish What You Fund, responds to the U.S. strategy for meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
Obama Administration Starts Delivering on Aid Transparency
2010 DAC multilateral aid report released
Yesterday, 17th July, the DAC released the 2010 Report on Multilateral Aid. A useful reference for official data and facts, it covers recent trends in multilateral aid and total use (core and non-core) of the multilateral system, with a special focus on UNDP and World Bank trust funds. It explores development perspectives of the climate change funding architecture, and provides an overview of the response of multilaterals to the financial and economic crisis. It also includes an update on members’ multilateral strategies and assessment approaches.
BMZ’s Internet Relaunch
At the beginning of August, the BMZ launched a redesigned website, offering guests an insight into the workings of German development policy. Accessible to all, the design is user-friendly and in both German and Engl
World Bank, AidData and Development Gateway geocode aid projects
Researchers from the World Bank, Development Gateway and AidData have just geocoded the Bank’s African and Latin American aid projects. That is, they have added subnational geographical information to plot exactly where aid activities are taking place in each country. Watch this video by AidData which brilliantly explains what geocoding means and why it is so important.
Pickles delivers transparency in local government spending
The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has called on councils to provide financial transparency by publishing spending information over £500 online by January 2011. Some councils are already providing details of their expenditure here.
New Eurodad report: Conditionality in World Bank crisis-lending to Ghana
Eurodad released a new report “Conditionality in World Bank crisis-lending to Ghana” on July 29th which finds that conditions for receiving loans are increasingly “being pushed through the side door” instead of being outlined in the loan agreements, keeping Low Income Countries under the influence of the Bank.