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 […]
There has been a lot of talk about humanitarian aid and where it has been going – or has not been going, as in the cases of Haiti and Syria. Last week, the Guardian reported that close to $1.5bn in aid pledged to Syria has ‘largely failed to materialised’, while NPR reported that only a fraction of the […]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is now presenting information about aid contributions in a format that is compatible with industry standards. OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS) has been publishing data on international humanitarian aid reported by donors and recipient organisations for the past 20 years. By working with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), and […]
[Guest post by Alan Hudson, ONE Director (Transparency & Accountability) – originally posted Feb 25th, 2013 on the ONE blog] As David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos made clear, plans for the G8 Summit are taking shape. In addition to tackling the threat of extremism and terrorist violence, and addressing issues around agriculture, food […]
