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 […]
The Pilot Aid Transparency Index 2011 was presented at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on 19 January 2012, with guest speakers including Raj Shah, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The event came just a month after Secretary Clinton’s announcement that the U.S. had joined the International Aid Transparency Initiative at […]
A report released recently by the Centre for Law and Democracy argues that disclosure policies of international financial institutions (IFIs) have forever lagged behind that of national public bodies, and that this should no longer be the case. Referring in particular to exemptions to the right to information on the grounds of protecting commercial interests, […]
