Guest blog by Claire Schouten, Integrity Action Last week saw the third meeting of the UN high-level panel (HLP), which has until May to come up with a vision to shape the post-2015 development agenda. The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015, and many of those goals have not been met as we near the […]
Guest post by Paolo de Renzio, Senior Research Fellow, Open Budget Initiative If you want to fight poverty, you need to care about budgets. They are the government’s most powerful tool to meet the needs and priorities of a country and its people. Public budgets are the blueprints for how the government will raise and spend the […]
The International Development Select Committee has published a report looking at how the UK Government spends its international aid budget. The Committee says that Department for International Development (DFID) is channelling more funds through multilateral organisations, like the UN and World Bank, even though they have higher administrative costs. Chair of the Committee, Rt Hon Sir […]
Thirty-five donor organisations and governments have so far released implementation schedules for the common standard on aid information, with at least five more plans likely to be published in the coming weeks. It is encouraging that donors representing the lion’s share of global aid flows have delivered on their Busan commitment of outlining their plans […]
Save the Children UK recently published Ending Poverty in Our Generation, outlining their vision to banish worldwide extreme poverty within 20 years. It also proposes new targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals. One of these goals is that by 2030, governance will be more open, accountable and inclusive. This includes three targets: Transparency: information about policy-making and budgeting must be available to the public in […]
Guest post by Nilmini Rubin, member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee (see bio at end). A popular newsletter, The Nelson Report, recently called former Senator Richard Lugar a “national treasure”. In my view, that is an apt description. During his 36 years in the Senate, Senator Lugar left his imprint on a […]
