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, […]
A parliamentary report published by the UK’s International Development Committee (IDC) has recommended that private foundations delivering aid money sign up to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) to improve their transparency and accountability. The report highlights that whilst private foundations are responsible for delivering a large amount of aid money, there is little detail […]
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) has been set up by a group of leading international development organisations, with the aim of making information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. Launched in September 2008 at the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, this pioneering initiative brings together donors, developing countries and civil society organisations to help […]
The Busan Outcome Document, or ‘Busan Partnership for effective development co-operation’ agreed on 1st December 2011, has resulted in four important developments for aid transparency within the aid effectiveness process associated to the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness: Donors, partner countries and civil society have agreed that transparency is a shared principle and foundation for […]
Jörg Faust recently released a paper which shows that aid donor governments with higher levels of political transparency often allocate more aid according to recipients’ neediness and institutional performance. The report, ‘Donor transparency and aid allocation’ is an analysis of the impact of domestic political transparency (as measured by standard corruption indices) on donor countries’ […]
