German Cabinet Approves Aid Agencies’ Merger
The German cabinet has approved a detailed plan to combine the country’s three foreign aid agencies into a single unit.
Aid and Budget Transparency in Mozambique
The Informal Governance Group and Alliance 2015 have just released a working paper, ‘Aid and Budget Transparency in Mozambique: Constraints for Civil Society, the Parliament and the Government’.
Providing a valuable case study and argument for the necessity of aid transparency, the study documents and analyses the problems faced by civil society, the Parliament and the Government of Mozambique when doing work related to the budget with less-than-transparent aid.
First Working Paper Published!
Publish What You Fund has released its first working paper with the Overseas Development Institute, ‘Practical Approaches to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda’ written by Samuel Moon with Zachary Mills.
Aid spending not as high as sceptics say
The brilliant blogger and economist Owen Barder yesterday clarified the total amount of money spent on aid since it began in the 1960s. According to OECD DAC statistics, together donors have given $502 billion ($866 billion in today’s prices) to sub-Saharan Africa; a far cry from the ‘over a trillion’ quoted by aid sceptics, who may be relieved to find out it is in fact only ‘billions’ worth of aid that ‘hasn’t worked’.
Karin Christiansen speaks in Parliament
Today Karin Christiansen, Director of Publish What You Fund, spoke at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid and Trade (APPG DAT), which has a membership of over 170 MPs and Peers in the UK Parliament and has developed into a forum for discussion on crucial issues facing the developing world.