France is pushing forward its transparency agenda, by publishing information on its aid spending in Mali last week. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) became the first French agencies to publish data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), the agreed common standard for publishing information about spending on development. We […]
Four years after the earthquake in Haiti, it is still hard to trace where the money has gone. Data released by the USAid last year shows it spent more than $270m on projects in Haiti in 2013, with US-based companies receiving almost half of this and American non-profits a further 37%. But the data that […]
Guest post by Jennifer Jentfer, Oxfam America – originally published here. “A lack of transparency creates one of the most dangerous mentalities among humans, like racism or regionalism,” says Faten Belguith, an IREX Community Solutions Program Fellow and co-founder of the Tunisian Network of Associations for Citizenship and Development (La Toile des Associations pour le Civisme et le […]
It’s the second week of 2014, we are all back at work, and it already seems like Christmas was a distant memory. But that doesn’t mean it’s too late to think about what the long year stretching out before us might have in store. Here are my three aid transparency predictions for 2014: France will […]
In a new interactive map created by the Guardian, aid, development and transparency information is shown for all European countries that are part of the OECD development assistance committee. The map shows: Donor governments’ priority areas and countries in 2012, and shows how much official development assistance (ODA) they spent as a proportion of their gross national income, using OECD data. Donors’ transparency performance, based […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance – originally posted here. A recent analysis by Publish What You Fund found that larger donors tend to have better aid transparency than smaller donors. This analysis was based on the aid commitment and the quality of transparency information published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. This generated a […]
