Over 130 organisations are now publishing their data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), an open data platform that gives a timely, comprehensive and comparable picture of aid flows in order to improve accountability and impact. Germany is the latest country to begin publishing its data in line with the IATI common standard, with […]
Honduras made an important step towards greater transparency by launching their aid data platform last week. The Platform for Aid Management (PGC) will make information on foreign aid programmes and projects implemented in the country readily available and easy accessible to public officials, donors, academia, civil society and the general public. If all donors providing development assistance […]
[Guest post by George Ingram: Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development. Also posted here.] As the long-dreaded sequestration process begins to set in, U.S. government programs that have already been feeling the heat of budget pressures are now starting to feel the pinch. Across all agencies and departments, there has never been such heightened vigilance to determine the […]
[Guest post by Dima Shocair Reda, Adaptation Fund – bio at end] The Adaptation Fund Board officially signed on to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) today. The Fund’s mandate to provide funding to the most vulnerable people in the world to combat the devastating effects of increased droughts, rising sea levels, and other natural disasters […]
Guest post by Rodney Bent (see bio at end), originally posted on Sunlight Foundation blog. Over the past 18 years, the American public told pollsters they believe the U.S. government spends way too much on foreign aid, reckoning that something like a fifth or a quarter of the federal budget is used for that purpose. […]
[Cross-posted on the Open Government Partnership site] The UK is a global leader in open data but the picture is still mixed across government activities and departments when it comes to international aid information. Although DFID accounts for the lion’s share of UK aid spending, there are other important players, notably the Department of Energy […]
