Coverage online Huffington Post: George Ingram – Aid Transparency: Will Obama and Romney Walk the Walk? Devex: Some progress but aid still not transparent Wall Street Journal: Study Says Development Aid Remains Opaque Despite Progress Guardian: World aid data: every country ranked for transparency Reuters: EU states lagging in aid transparency – watchdog Also carried […]
Background In early 2012, the OECD DAC Working Party on Development Finance Statistics (WP-STAT) and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) developed a framework for the common standard for publishing aid information. This framework built upon the commitments donors made at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) in Busan and was finally agreed by all participants in June 2012. The approach […]
Last week we launched our 2012 Aid Transparency Index in Washington, D.C. at the brand new Open Gov Hub. Having been nearly a year since Secretary Clinton announced the U.S. would join the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), we wanted to host a discussion reflecting on U.S. progress and its impact on the global policy […]
-CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY- As an advocacy organisation campaigning for aid transparency, constructive engagement with donors is an important part of our work. But another vital area has been measuring the state of aid transparency, how different donors are responding to these challenges and whether they are living up to their commitments. This is why we […]
The 2012 Aid Transparency Index shows a slow but steady improvement in global aid transparency. But despite this progress, it also finds that most aid information is still not published. The Index ranks a total of 72 bilateral and multilateral agencies, selected climate finance funds, humanitarian agencies, development finance institutions and private foundations have also […]
Publish What You Fund and ONE warmly welcomed Secretary Clinton’s announcement in late 2011 that the U.S. was joining the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Such a commitment added immensely to the Administration’s drive for more open and detailed information about its foreign assistance, particularly on two crucial elements: timeliness and international comparability. But as […]
