Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a brute force technology exercise? Should IATI support require document screen scraping and financial management software data massaging? International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) classifications, designed to enable aid effectiveness across multiple projects, provide compelling internal information for decision making. Many of us involved in the aid and […]
In a significant step forward for global transparency, the first-ever “Open Contracting Data Standard” was announced yesterday by the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). The development of a common standard for the disclosure of contracting data is a key pillar of the work of the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP)to promote disclosure and participation in public contracting – […]
Its mid-January – past the time to make (and break!) any new year’s resolutions, but still time to reflect on last year and assess the year ahead. One thing is crystal clear: 2014 is a critical year for the U.S. if it is to meet its commitments on aid transparency. In 2013, the Millennium Challenge […]
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 […]
