Publish What You Fund welcomes the IBP recommendations which follow the publication of the Open Budget Survey 2008.

In a recent article for the Washington Post Christine Fair (Rand Corporation) meets the news that Pakistan is to see an extra $100 billion development aid from the U.S by calling for a ‘well-structured trust fund’ to administer Pakistani aid flows.

The General Affairs and External Relations Council of the EU met on the 18th May for discussions over the organisation of development financing. The Paris Principles were used to frame a large part of the discussions, in which the Council agreed – amongst other issues such as mutual accountability – that EU Member States could increase the predictability of aid i.e. transparency of forward aid activities.

The ‘mark up’ of the new US Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act 2009 (HR 2139) has been postponed. The bill which includes major advance on aid transparency, has been delayed whilst debates around the National Strategy for Global Development elements of the Bill continue.

Congressman Berman is said to be committed to pushing the bill sooner rather than later and Publish What You Fund looks forward to continued improvements in US aid transparency efforts.

One week before EU Development Ministers meet in Brussels, a new report from AidWatch and CONCORD, the European coalition of development NGOS, reveals the rankings of European governments on the basis of aid transparency.

Press Release

Publish What You Fund

The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency

www.publishwhatyoufund.org

ONE and Publish What You Fund today welcomed legislation that directs the Obama administration to develop and implement a national strategy to modernize US foreign assistance. This bill is an important opening move in a broader effort to make U.S. foreign assistance more strategic, effective, and transparent.