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News roundup – AI and open aid data, transparency and public development banks, the next Aid Transparency Index plus added value and DFIs

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Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring an opportunity to be part of the 2028 Aid Transparency Index, a new initiative to strengthen the transparency of public development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean, an examination of how AI can help to access IATI aid data, a review of DFI reporting on additionality, and news of the next DFI Transparency Index.

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New initiative to assess and strengthen transparency among public development banks in Latin America

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Publish What You Fund and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean – have announced the launch of a new initiative to assess and enhance transparency across public development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean. This 18-month project will engage a select group of public development banks throughout the region to improve the disclosure of information relating to their institution and the projects they finance.

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Can AI solve open aid data’s access problem?

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For years, accessing raw aid data has required specialist skills – understanding data structures, writing queries, and interpreting complex reporting practices. That has created a reliance on “data intermediaries” to turn data into insights. Elma Jenkins and Alex Tilley have been testing whether AI agents could bridge that gap by querying raw IATI data directly. In this blog they set out their findings – the potential and reality of using AI to mine aid data.

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News roundup – Lessons learned from tracking local funding and our private capital mobilisation scorecard for multilateral development banks

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Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – with our verdict on the latest MDB report on private capital mobilisation, lessons we’ve learned from tracking local funding, a new training opportunity, the UK’s response to our aid transparency review, and an easy way to access our MDB climate finance dataset.