A report released today by the National Audit Office welcomed steps taken by the Department for International Development (DFID) to improve transparency over aid distributed via multilateral organisations. Commenting on the report, Publish What You Fund Director David Hall-Matthews said: ‘We agree that DFID is making great steps to improve the transparency of its aid […]
In a letter to Publish What You Fund, the new World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, reaffirmed the Bank’s commitment to the openness agenda and praised the campaign for their continued promotion of the issue. Jim Yong Kim said: “The World Bank sees openness and transparency as key to delivering better development results and strengthening accountability…we appreciate your […]
Last weekend, Publish What You Fund and the Guardian hosted a ‘hack day’ as part of the Development Data Challenge. The event helped kick off hackdays around the world to interrogate – and explore the limits of – recently released aid and government spending data. Hacks and hackers, developers and development experts gathered at the Guardian offices […]
Including progress on aid transparency within Canada’s Open Government Partnership Action Plan
All UK Government departments produced an open data strategy in June – alongside the Cabinet Office’s Open Data White Paper – pledging themselves to big releases of datasets and innovative open data approaches over the next two years. Although they followed a template, the departments’ strategies vary dramatically in scope, detail and ambition. This reflects how far different […]
The Inter-American Development Bank, the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, released a detailed plan of how it intends to meet the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard for aid publication. As part of their Busan commitment to transparency and accountability, IDB will make public activity level info on a quarterly […]
