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 […]
(Guest blog by Krishna Sapkota, Freedom Forum) It is great to share with you that Freedom Forum has recently produced and published a study report titled ‘Aid Transparency Situation of Nepal’ as part of a wider pilot project to better understand the aid information landscape in Nepal and to make recommendations for future work to improve the availability […]
A bill that extensively reforms and modernizes the decades-old U.S. foreign assistance system was introduced by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) yesterday. The Global Partnerships Act of 2012 is the major rewrite of the Foreign Assistance Act originally passed in 1961 during Pres. John F. Kennedy’s term. The GPA seeks to modernize foreign aid efforts by […]
This week has seen the publication of two very critical reports on UK aid. A report by the campaign group War on Want says Britain’s aid budget for Africa is increasingly being channelled through public-private investment funds based in the offshore tax haven of Mauritius. The report says the Department for International Development (DFID) has sponsored a network of offshore investment funds and […]
