We at Publish What You Fund don’t often get involved in debates about how much overseas aid the UK (or any other country) gives. We are concerned purely and simply with how transparent aid is – because no-one can be sure that it is effective and useful unless they can easily access information about it. […]
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) will have a new set of hosts, decided by the steering committee yesterday in Paris. The UNDP, Sweden, UNOPS, Ghana and Development Initiatives, will work as a consortium and share responsibility for hosting IATI. The Consortium was chosen because the steering committee believes it represents the multi-stakeholder nature of […]
[originally posted on the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog] Publish What You Fund has undertaken some initial analysis of aid donors’ plans to publish to the IATI component of the agreed common standard for aid information. Here, Mark Brough explains the process they went through to take a series of Excel files, convert them into a format suitable for analysis, and come to […]
Publish What You Fund has released an analysis of the donors’ plans to implement the Busan common standard, which sets out good practice in reporting and publishing aid data. These implementation schedules are an important step in the aid transparency process, and will be used to monitor donors’ progress towards the goal of full implementation by 2015. We have […]
Yesterday, the OECD produced an XML file containing DAC members’ annual aid flows. The file is a conversion of 2010 and 2011 data from their Creditor Reporting System (CRS) into XML format (computer-readable “mark-up” language that allows programmers to extract and present data in a comparable and accessible way). By converting their aid data to XML, […]
Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. Politicians, NGOs and activists are meeting in New York for the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Organisations all over the world are marking the occasion, drawing attention to important contributions to the gender equality movement. At Publish What You Fund, we believe gender equality and aid […]
