News roundup: the promise of aid transparency, data diary and COVID-19 funding
Our monthly review of news, featuring blogs on gender data and the promise of the Index – plus news on debt transparency, following the COVID money and ODA rules.
The promise – and pitfalls – of the Aid Transparency Index
In our final 2020 Aid Transparency Index launch blog, Dr Kate Weaver of the University of Texas reflects on the influence of the Index and the limitations of the methodology. She calls for greater support to enable the Index to take the next steps in delivering the real promise of aid transparency – better, more accountable aid for all.
Data diary: Megan O’Donnell on the importance of tracking gender-related spending
As part of our gender financing project, we are launching a series of data diaries. In the first of the series, we ask Megan O’Donnell, Assistant Director of the Center for Global Development’s gender program why gender-related data matters to her work, how she engages with the data, and what improvements she would like to see to make this data more transparent.
News Roundup – The next transparency challenge
Our monthly round up features news from the Index, humanitarian, DFI and gender teams at Publish What You Fund, as well as news and reports from Development Initiatives, Eurodad, IATI, ONE Campaign and others.
Watch now: DFI Transparency Initiative findings from work stream 1
Join us on 21st July to discuss the transparency of DFIs, with a focus on our findings on the transparency of basic project information.
How the Index encourages transparency
The recently launched 2020 Aid Transparency Index illustrates the balance needed between competition and co-operation for driving transparency. As a tool the Index is quite simple, we encourage the world’s major aid organisations to be more transparent by scoring and ranking their published aid data. In this blog, Elma Jenkins digs into how the Index works and how it drives transparency.