Participants at a follow-up meeting to the Busan conference on aid effectiveness have agreed a set of indicators that will provide the basis for a global monitoring framework for development assistance. The Guardian reports that agreement on the 10 indicators put forward by the UK and Rwanda followed two days of talks at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation […]
CAN Europe, Aprodev, German Watch, CIDSE and Oxfam commissioned the new report in order to identify how the EU can improve the current process for monitoring their climate finance commitments. The report comes a week after Publish What You Fund published a study into climate finance, Towards Climate Finance Transparency. The new CAN Europe report assesses how the […]
The US is to publish an ‘accountability report’ detailing how the $22bn aid funds pledged by the G8 at L’Aquila has been raised and how much has been spent. According to the Guardian, White House officials disclosed the intention to publish the report ahead of President Obama’s speech today to mark the start of G8 […]
Publish What You Fund welcomes the United Nations Office for Project Services’ (UNOPS) decision to publish fully geocoded information about its activities in the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) format. By releasing this information, in a comparable format, over 1,000 projects will be available to all stakeholders looking for geographical and technical information about UNOPS’ […]
This paper maps the broad landscape of funding to enable adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and the systems for monitoring it. These include systems which label the money as ‘aid’ as well as those that have been developed to assess climate finance specifically. This paper seeks to provide a background and framework on transparency and reporting […]
