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PRESS RELEASE: France to publish aid data to common standard / La France va publier l’information sur son aide publique selon la norme commune

By Katie Welford | Jul 31, 2013 | News

The French Government has just announced that aid transparency is a core priority of its new development policy and it will start publishing its aid data in accordance with an internationally agreed common standard in 2014. The Inter-ministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) met this morning for the first time in four years, under […]

Collecting data for the Aid Transparency Index

By Nicholas Winnett | Jul 25, 2013 | Blog

Here at Publish What You Fund we’ve spent the last four months collecting data for the 2013 Aid Transparency Index. It’s a burdensome task but it’s highlighted to me just how far the aid transparency movement has come since we piloted our Index in 2011. My first role at Publish What You Fund was collecting […]

Will the G8 really make any difference in Africa?

By Guest | Jul 18, 2013 | Blog

Guest post by Donald Kaberuka, President of African Development Bank Group In unsteady economic times, it was significant to see that transparency remained a crucial topic of discussion at the G8 in Lough Erne. Even more significant was that all the countries at the table walked away with a firm commitment to increasing transparency, in everything from […]

Mismanaged aid: From an empty building to broken systems

By Catalina Reyes | Jul 16, 2013 | Blog

The aid transparency movement has helped stakeholders in donor and partner countries to move from asking ‘why does aid transparency matter and to whom?’ to ‘what are the risks when there is limited aid information and who suffers from it?’. Two recent articles explain the need for transparency, coordination and better information management systems to […]

Ten years of FOI

By Guest | Jul 15, 2013 | Blog

Guest post by Lydia Medland, Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) Coordinator. Over the last 10 years the right of access to information, or “freedom of information”, has spread exponentially. Laws have been passed in over 40 countries recognising that citizens have a right of access to information, international courts have ruled that citizens […]

Transparency Week

By Katie Welford | Jul 12, 2013 | News

On October 24, we will launch our 2013 Aid Transparency Index in Washington D.C. This will mark the start of a week of events focusing on transparency, accountability and good governance, finishing with the Open Government Partnership conference in London on October 31. We are encouraging other transparency organisations and development campaigners to participate, raising the profile of transparency, […]

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