Campaigners are urging the UK Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to help halt a dangerous slide towards secrecy at a giant bank of which the UK is an owner. The already secretive European Investment Bank is proposing to make it far harder for European citizens to find out what it is up […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon last week announced a new independent expert advisory group on the data revolution. As an organisation that has been vocal in its support of the data revolution from the start, Publish What You Fund very much welcomes this initiative. It is great to see the UN paying attention to the […]
Development Initiatives today launched the Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report, providing an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of global humanitarian financing. Humanitarian crises are messy and complicated – and so is the reporting. Produced annually since 2000, the GHA report answers some basic questions around humanitarian funding: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? How does it get there? […]
Last week, the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) technical team published a series of guidance videos to help organisations looking to publish their aid information. Even if you are an old-pro when it comes to all things aid transparency, I recommend visiting the IATI channel to check them out. The videos walk through the whole process of data publication, addressing […]
When the U.S. made its first foray into the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), it adopted a “whole of government” approach. While there is merit to having various agencies of government speaking with one voice, this also creates problems when it comes to publishing quality data. We were very encouraged when the U.S. changed course on this and […]
The United States’ largest spending aid agency, USAID, has published its plan for increasing openness and transparency. Although delayed by several months after the June 1st deadline, USAID’s Open Government Plan is an improvement on its previous ambitions. The report references USAID’s ongoing commitment to publish aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), and its goal […]
