The UN Development Cooperation Forum has announced a Special Policy Dialogue to discuss philanthropic aid in the lead up to July’s Development Cooperation Forum. Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Fellow Dr Noshua Watson addressed the UN Special Dialogue this week, advocating for greater participation from philanthropic organisations in existing aid transparency initiatives. Speaking before the […]
Yesterday Owen Barder, Director for Europe at the Center for Global Development, expressed concern regarding the openness of the Google-World Bank mapping project, pointing out that data used to create the maps should be available for anyone to access and use. Last month in the New York Times, Caroline Anstey, Managing Director at the World Bank, […]
Congratulations to UNICEF, who announced last week that they will become the 29th donor signatory to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). They will be the fifth UN agency to become a signatory to IATI, joining UNDP, UNOPS, UN-HABITAT and UNCDF. Executive Director Anthony Lake made the announcement during the opening remarks of the First […]
On February 9, U.S. President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing the President’s Global Development Council. The Council will be overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and is envisaged to be a group of 12 individuals from outside of government along with high-level officials, who will; “provide advice to the President and […]
A report recently published by De Renzio and Angemi finds that a lack of donor aid transparency can contribute to conditions which lead to poor budget transparency in recipient countries. Looking at the role of donor agencies in promoting or preventing budget transparency in aid-dependent countries, the report says there is an inverse correlation between aid […]
The OECD DAC Working Party on Aid Effectiveness paved the way for negotiations running up to the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), including on transparency, ownership and use of country systems. At HLF-4, the group’s function was extended for the first half of 2012 – to agree a governance structure for the new Global […]
