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 […]
A few weeks ago, Publish What You Fund signed up to the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign, which is being run by a coalition of over 100 NGOs – everyone from Oxfam and Save the Children to, well, us. Enough Food for Everyone IF is a great movement of individuals and organisations who have […]
February 23 is Open Data Day, a global initiative that encourages citizens around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. The event comes as aidinfo, a leading transparency […]
Last week, the Danish aid agency Danida unveiled of a set of initiatives (what it has called their ‘transparency package’). This package includes a programme and project database, which will be updated annually. In all, there are four new sections on the aid agency’s website: Send feedback to Danida: Organisations or individuals can directly praise, […]
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 […]
