The UK Department for International Development(DFID) has released a new beta platform that tracks this British aid and development money. The Development Tracker is completely open source, and uses data published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. The hope is that this platform will spur other NGOs and nations around the world to begin thinking more about […]
Donors from around the world met in Brussels last month to pledge funds for war-torn Mali, following a military coup that took place in March this year and later fighting between Tuareg and Islamist rebels. International donors agreed to provide Mali with over €3 billion in aid and the European Union pledged €1.35 billion, nearly […]
We congratulate the Center for Global Development for their latest effort on tracking foreign assistance through the U.S. Foreign Assistance Dashboard Tracker. The tracker will help inform a number of stakeholders on the progress of the Foreign Assistance Dashboard, including what agencies are uploading information (planning, obligation, spent, and implementation), when, and with what frequency. […]
Originally carried in Devex On Friday, a panel of world leaders appointed by the United Nations proposed a highly anticipated framework for stamping out extreme poverty by 2030. The recommendations are a dramatic shift from the Millennium Development Goals, which expire at the end of 2015. They call for a ‘data and information revolution’ […]
Leading transparency and access to information campaigners including CAFOD, Global Witness, Integrity Action and Publish What You Fund, today welcomed a new UN report as driving progress towards enhanced citizen accountability around the world. The report by the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015 Development Agenda calls for a ‘data revolution’, proposes a goal to […]
There were two updates to the U.S. Foreign Assistance Dashboard last week: obligation and expenditure data for USAID and MCC for FY 2013. While we continue to applaud the agencies making these crucial first steps in increasing the aid transparency, the quality of this information continues to be a concern. It is high level information […]
