Looking Ahead to the Next Aid Transparency Index
Preparations are underway for the next Aid Transparency Index. This blog sets out the expected milestones for the 2020 Index and what aid and development actors can expect.
News Roundup – The Development Finance Debate, Corruption, Social Impact Investing and IATI Tech Update
Our fortnightly round up of news, blogs and reports – featuring reflections on the development finance debate,a new research manager, corruption, social impact investing and debt.
Reflections on the Development Finance Debate: Putting Principles into Practice
The debate on the role of private finance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is intense and lively. The need for transparency comes up again and again. But how do we move from debate to action?
News Roundup – Measuring Impact without Transparency, Six Ideas to Increase Data Use and Some Interesting Reads
A fortnightly roundup of our latest blogs and good reads, including a guest blog on how we can increase the use of global aid data and reflections on the importance of transparency when considering the impact of development finance.
Six Ideas to Increase the Use of Global Aid Transparency Data
As Publish What You Fund and others in the aid transparency community turn their energies toward improving data use, Ruth Levine and Joseph Asunka of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation present six practical ideas that could speed up progress. These ideas could go a long way to increase the use of data by government officials, and the organisations and citizens working to hold their government officials accountable for results.
Can You Measure What You Can’t See?
Next week is Private Finance for Sustainable Development Week – an annual OECD event that brings together the public and private sector to discuss new approaches in using private finance to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Naturally the role of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) will be included in these discussions by virtue of the financial muscle they bring to the table. And as part of our ongoing work on DFI Transparency we’ll be there.
In this blog we question the value of increasing the focus on impact measurement if development objectives, results and lessons learned are not transparent.