[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 […]
Companies in the European Union will now have to disclose in future how much they pay foreign governments to secure oil, gas, coal and other raw materials. The new EU legislation, passed yesterday in Brussels, is aimed at curbing corruption between poor countries‘ governments and EU firms. The transparency measures are included in an overall […]
Guest post by Claudia Schwegmann, founder of the OpenAid project and board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. Germany has published its first set of aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this to happen. It is particularly good news as Germany was […]
The OECD has released its latest raft of aid figures today, revealing that aid continues to slips further as governments tighten budgets. The statistics show that development aid fell by 4% in real terms in 2012, following a 2% fall in 2011. The continuing financial crisis and euro zone turmoil has led several governments to restrict their […]
