Our Research and Monitoring Manager Elise Dufief will moderate a roundtable discussion at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) meetings taking place in Paris from 7-9 December. It has been organised by Publish What You Fund in partnership with Development Gateway and Oxfam France. The event, titled Follow the Money: Using Open Data to Track SDG Funding and […]
Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund welcome the strong emphasis on increased transparency in the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)’s long-awaited Bilateral Development Review and Multilateral Development Review, both published today. DFID has been a leading player in global efforts to improve transparency for many years and in these latest reviews we see […]
This week, global leaders and major development cooperation stakeholders gathered in Nairobi for the second high-level meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, hosted by the government of Kenya. Before new commitments are made, how have major donors fared on their transparency commitments and what are the implications for a country like Kenya?
“A few million dollars is just a drop in the ocean,” said Muchiri Nyaggah, Executive Director of Kenyan think-tank Local Development Research Institute (LDRI), “but if you know exactly where and how it is needed then you can really achieve something.” Muchiri and I were discussing how access to structured sub-national location data can improve […]
This is a guest blog post by George Ingram, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chair of the Friends of Publish What You Fund. The original blog was posted on the Brookings site on November 17th. America has just come through a grueling, divisive election. While President-elect Trump has articulated views on various domestic […]
Publish What You Fund will take part in an event at the High Level Meeting in Nairobi as part of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC). The event is being co-hosted by the African Development Bank, UNDP, World Food Programme and IATI. It will run from 7.45 – 9.00am in the Lenana Room […]
