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A fair share? Reflections on USAID’s first localization progress report

By Sally Paxton and Gary Forster | Jun 28, 2023 | Blog

USAID has just provided a detailed update on its goal to direct 25% of its funding to local actors by 2025. Earlier this year, Publish What You Fund investigated the measurement of this 25% target and concluded that the choice of methodology could determine whether more than US$1.4 billion of additional funding is channeled to local actors each year. So we have been taking a close look at USAID’s progress report and the measures used.

Moving toward improved 2X disclosure

By Alex Farley and Gary Forster | Jun 6, 2023 | Blog

As 2X Global works to develop a new certification process for gender lens investors, we set out why greater transparency must be integrated into this process. Our new working paper provides four recommendations for improving the disclosure of 2X investments – so that we can understand their impact on women and girls, and ensure we are making the most effective use of our scarce resources.

Vacancy: Chair and Trustees

By Sam Cavenett | May 3, 2023 | News

The Publish What You Fund Board is currently looking for three new Trustees, including a new Chair. We are seeking individuals with knowledge of strategy, finance and transparency to take on these voluntary roles and oversee a viable and resilient organisation.

The IATI data well

By Elma Jenkins and Guest | Apr 26, 2023 | Blog

What aid and development data is available and where can it be found? In this post Elma Jenkins, Publish What You Fund, and Rolf Kleef, data/IT consultant, introduce three user-friendly tools that can be used to access International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data – D-portal, the Datastore and Country Development Finance Data – and describe their key features. This is the first in a blog series examining IATI data access tools.

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