Guest post by Jennifer Lentfer, Oxfam America – originally posted here. Three US government agencies released loads of data on their foreign aid programs last month. So what happens when a Parliamentarian or a Minister of a country receiving US development assistance wants to use that information? Yesterday I sat down with the Hon. Albert Kan-Dapaah, a former government […]
Guest post by Nathaniel Heller, Global Integrity Every year, Publish What You Fund produces an index to rank donors according to how transparent they are about the aid they give. The Index has become the industry standard, assessing the state of aid transparency among the world’s major donors, while encouraging progress and holding them to […]
Guest post by Michelle Mueller, AidData Summer Fellow in Mexico – originally posted here. On July 25th, Mexico announced its intention to host the first ministerial-level meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. Both a recipient and provider of development assistance, Mexico has embraced South-South cooperation and supports regional development projects. Measuring both incoming and outgoing aid flows […]
Guest post by Laia Grino, InterAction (originally posted here). Last week, it would have been much, much harder to answer questions like, “Who is USAID funding to do work in Kenya? What is that funding for?” Or more generally: “Who is getting funding to do what and where?” With the latest update to the Foreign Assistance Dashboard, finding […]
New Zealand, an original signature to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), has started to publish new aid data to the common standard. New Zealand originally published in XML for the first time in May 2012, but have been working to improve their data since. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) have now published new […]
The Publish What You Fund office is buzzing with excitement over a flurry of new aid information in the last few weeks. Donors seem motivated to meet our July 31st data collection deadline for this year’s Aid Transparency Index. In the U.S. alone, 3 agencies have made important strides to meet their commitments to aid […]
