The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has published its first set of data to the internationally agreed common standard. The FCO is the third UK Government department to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), a cutting-edge global standard for aid publication. It joins the Department for International Development (DFID), which leads the pack […]
A bipartisan bill which aims to ensure American tax dollars do a better job of helping fight global poverty was put before Congress yesterday. The Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act 2013 was introduced by Representatives Judge Ted Poe (R-TX) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and its’ companion bill in the Senate was introduced by Senators […]
Businesses and NGOs working in the mining, oil and gas industry joined forced with the Government today to mark the launch of the UK’s implementation of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI). The Initiative, which was set up to increase transparency, improves the way revenues from oil, gas and minerals are managed and makes sure […]
Guest post by Martin Tisné, Director, Policy at Omidyar Network and Publish What You Fund board member. I am very fortunate to have been involved with Publish What You Fund since its launch alongside the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in 2008, at the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. That was five years ago. Publish […]
How we’re monitoring the quality of aid information published in IATI and other formats.
Guest blog by George Ingram, David Beckmann and Jim Kolbe, originally posted here. Something peculiar has happened around President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa: a famously dysfunctional Congress actually sent a constructive, bipartisan message to the president about the future of engagement with the continent and other developing countries. Two weeks ago, a group […]
