Guest post by John Adams, UK Department for International Development (DFID) The IATI TAG (that’s the International Aid Transparency Initiative Technical Advisory Group) met at the end of January in Montreal, kindly hosted by Canada’s Department for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). Around 120 members of the IATI community gathered for two days of […]
One of the key objectives of the aid transparency agenda is to provide aid information in a way that can be used by recipient governments in the budget planning cycle. Put simply, if donor spending is not transparent, recipient countries cannot accurately include aid spending in their own budgets. Demand and need for the budget […]
Guest blog by Heather Hanson, Senior Policy Advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation If you walked into the recent International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting in Montreal, you might be surprised by the crowd. Participation wasn’t limited to government representatives in suits from around the world (like me!). The TAG was a real […]
Last week, Publish What You Fund attended the IATI TAG (Technical Advisory Group) meeting in Montreal in force. How did it go? Well, it was great. A fantastic community came together to work out what we need to do to improve aid data. It constantly surprises even us how much it has grown. There was strong […]
Congratulations to the Republic of Yemen, which has joined the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Steering Committee this week. This brings the number of partner country members of IATI’s governing body to 23, more than a third of the total membership. The IATI Secretariat said: “The partner country caucus in IATI provides a vital connection […]
The 2014 International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) technical meeting finished with participants feeling positive about the future of open data and development transparency. New Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), John Adams of UK’s DFID said: “The TAG was amazing – the range of people, the energy, the enthusiasm were fantastic. We have a […]
