The fifth draft of the Busan Outcome Document, released today, 23 November, shows a weakened commitment to aid transparency. The redrafting of the transparency section (22) is disappointing, as newer language has diluted and confused important elements. However, we recognise that this is a compromise. Having consulted widely on this today, there is consensus that […]
Congratulations to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for publishing its aid data to the Foreign Assistance Dashboard today, almost a year on from the launch. We applaud MCC for being the first U.S. agency to publish their “spent” data. Similarly, within the Publish What You Fund 2011 Pilot Aid Transparency Index, MCC was the only U.S. agency to publish […]
Today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the First Global Assembly for Budget Transparency, Accountability, and Participation CSO’s from recipient counties will join forces with international organisations including Greenpeace, the ONE Campaign, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) to call for more open and accountable government budgeting. This assembly, held in the final days before […]
EU ministers yesterday agreed a common EU position for the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness at the end of the month. Publish What You Fund welcomes the Foreign Affairs Council’s position advocating reaffirmation of Accra commitments on transparency from all development partners to publicly disclose regular, detailed and timely aid information. While we […]
The majority of international aid donors are not publishing enough information about the money they give, undermining the effectiveness of development spending and damaging public trust, according to a new report released today by Publish What You Fund. The report comes just 2 weeks before a key international meeting on aid effectiveness in Busan, Korea. […]
Our congratulations go to Engineers Without Borders Canada who on Friday 11 November became the third NGO in the world to publish their aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative standard. This impressive development was facilitated by the Open Aid Register, a new initiative which helps NGOs become more transparent, and comes even before […]
