In a significant step forward for global transparency, the first-ever “Open Contracting Data Standard” was announced yesterday by the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). The development of a common standard for the disclosure of contracting data is a key pillar of the work of the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP)to promote disclosure and participation in public contracting – […]
France is pushing forward its transparency agenda, by publishing information on its aid spending in Mali last week. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) became the first French agencies to publish data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), the agreed common standard for publishing information about spending on development. We […]
Four years after the earthquake in Haiti, it is still hard to trace where the money has gone. Data released by the USAid last year shows it spent more than $270m on projects in Haiti in 2013, with US-based companies receiving almost half of this and American non-profits a further 37%. But the data that […]
In a new interactive map created by the Guardian, aid, development and transparency information is shown for all European countries that are part of the OECD development assistance committee. The map shows: Donor governments’ priority areas and countries in 2012, and shows how much official development assistance (ODA) they spent as a proportion of their gross national income, using OECD data. Donors’ transparency performance, based […]
Earlier this week, the European Court of Auditors released its findings of an audit of European financial support to help developing countries cope with climate impacts. The report reveals the overall EU coordination with member states, who provide the large majority of European climate finance, is inadequate. Auditors highlight how the lack of a robust monitoring, reporting and […]
Earlier this month, the U.S. released a new plan detailing the commitments and priorities for the next two years under the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The updated National Action Plan is not only more ambitious than we anticipated; it also shows a significant improvement from an earlier draft version released at the OGP summit in […]
