The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network has launched a Twitter contest to help spread the word about the importance of transparency in foreign assistance. MFAN want you to tweet a short comment on why you think aid transparency is important. The best response will win USAID Administrator Raj Shah’s top five books on development. Here are the details: […]
Publish What You Fund today welcomed a new director, Dr David Hall-Matthews. Dr. Hall-Matthews comes from an academic background, having lectured in international development at the University of Leeds. He has also taught at LSE, SOAS and Oxford University and worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Administration of Relief in […]
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’ […]
