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 […]
Trying to predict the future is a mug’s game. No one can tell what events will overtake their best laid plans. But as the New Year gets into full swing, plenty of people are doing it anyway – and not (only) because there are a lot of mugs about. If you are a government official, […]
UPDATE 4 January 2013: The bill has since been blocked in the Senate. See MFAN statement. On December 30th, 2012 the United States House of Representatives passed the H.R. 3159: Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2012. This important piece of legislation will instruct agencies to “[M]ake publicly available comprehensive, timely, comparable, and accessible information […]
On December 20, the U.S. and Canada joined 25 other international donors in releasing their Busan common standard implementation schedules, outlining their plans for publishing aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Registry. The U.S. Implementation Schedule, a key component of the United States government’s commitment to IATI, contains a timetable for publication of individual information items […]
Aid donors have begun to publish implementation schedules, showing how they will implement the common standard agreed at Busan. This includes the entirety of the IATI standard. See our previous blog for more details. Implementation schedules are being posted on the OECD-DAC website here, as they are available, and must be submitted by the end […]
Publish What You Fund is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to the Board of Directors, Owen Barder, senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development, and Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, who both bring with them a wealth of experience in the field of international development and transparency. Commenting on the work […]
