Guest post by Laia Grino, InterAction (originally posted here). Last week, it would have been much, much harder to answer questions like, “Who is USAID funding to do work in Kenya? What is that funding for?” Or more generally: “Who is getting funding to do what and where?” With the latest update to the Foreign Assistance Dashboard, finding […]
New Zealand, an original signature to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), has started to publish new aid data to the common standard. New Zealand originally published in XML for the first time in May 2012, but have been working to improve their data since. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) have now published new […]
The Publish What You Fund office is buzzing with excitement over a flurry of new aid information in the last few weeks. Donors seem motivated to meet our July 31st data collection deadline for this year’s Aid Transparency Index. In the U.S. alone, 3 agencies have made important strides to meet their commitments to aid […]
The French Government has just announced that aid transparency is a core priority of its new development policy and it will start publishing its aid data in accordance with an internationally agreed common standard in 2014. The Inter-ministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) met this morning for the first time in four years, under […]
Here at Publish What You Fund we’ve spent the last four months collecting data for the 2013 Aid Transparency Index. It’s a burdensome task but it’s highlighted to me just how far the aid transparency movement has come since we piloted our Index in 2011. My first role at Publish What You Fund was collecting […]
Guest post by Donald Kaberuka, President of African Development Bank Group In unsteady economic times, it was significant to see that transparency remained a crucial topic of discussion at the G8 in Lough Erne. Even more significant was that all the countries at the table walked away with a firm commitment to increasing transparency, in everything from […]
