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 […]
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has become the first multilateral development bank to publish private sector and geocoded aid data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The AfDB became the 19th signatory to IATI in April 2011. IATI is a voluntary initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid in order to increase its effectiveness […]
Over the past few months Publish What You Fund along with some of its partners have been working on a series of blogs to explore Aid Transparency from different perspectives and for different uses. The series of blogs kicked off in March with a blog from Paul O’Brien from Oxfam America and concluded in May […]
On June 24th Publish What You Fund and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network organized an event on Capitol Hill to discuss aid transparency and the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Kindly hosted by the co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus for Effective Foreign Assistance (CCEFA), Ander Crenshaw and Adam Smith, the event brought together over 70 staffers […]
You may not have noticed from the headlines, but the G8 Summit was a real triumph for transparency. It was a brave and ambitious thing to put on the agenda, because it is not an easy issue to negotiate on. When it comes to the details, hundreds of different interests – many of them vested […]
The G8 is finally delivering on aid transparency promises with all countries committing to full and timely implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This includes France, Italy and Japan, for the first time. Implementation of IATI is achievable and consistent with the goals of the Lough Erne Summit, as it provides a standard […]
