Every year we produce an Aid Transparency Index in order to assess the state of aid transparency among the world’s major donors. And every year we are faced with the question of which organisations to include. In previous years organisations were selected on the basis of their membership of the OECD DAC or IATI. Additional […]
Guest post by David Banisar, Article 19 This week in New York at the UN General Assembly meetings on the future of the Millennium Development Goals, the call for “revolution” has been heard throughout the rooms and halls of the United Nations and in the cafés, hotels, and bars nearby. Fortunately for the world leaders […]
Guest post by Ben Leo, Center for Global Development, originally posted here. Next month, Publish What You Fund (PWYF) will release its latest Aid Transparency Index, which assesses how well 67 development organizations open their books to scrutiny from their taxpayers and recipient country governments and citizens. USAID ranked 27th last year, a pretty disappointing result for the lead US […]
“A huge weight of analysis that in turn drives a large volume of money for the world’s poorest people rests on a flimsy, uncertain, patchy body of data.” That is the damning conclusion of a new report from Development Initiatives. The boldly titled Investments to End Poverty stands out from the crowd of ever-more-ambitious development programs by starting […]
Publish What You Fund is launching the 2013 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) on October 24, 2013. The Index is the only global measure of the state of aid transparency in the world’s leading aid organizations. Co-hosted with The Brookings Institution and Oxfam America, the event will include the perspective of a leading Southern voice, […]
Paris, le 18 septembre – Alors que François Hollande se rend au Mali pour l’investiture du nouveau président, la France a annoncé hier la mise en ligne d’un site internet de traçabilité de l’aide française au Mali. « Cette première en France », selon les mots même du Ministre du développement porteur de cette initiative, est certes une […]
