The Commonwealth Ministers of Finance met on 21 September in Washington, D.C. to discuss aid effectiveness and their potential contribution to building international consensus ahead of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4), resulting in The Final Commonwealth Statement on Accelerating Development with More Effective Aid. To accelerate progress towards commitments they made […]
The Second Draft of the Busan Outcome Document now cites the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and the importance of transparency is repeatedly stressed as a foundation for success across the aid effectiveness agenda. There is acknowledgement that commitments at Busan need to be time-bound, and the speed of implementation addressed – “accelerating efforts where they are […]
The campaign group Publish What You Fund today welcomed the launch of a new initiative to encourage governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and strengthen governance. The Open Government Partnership, which launches today in New York, is overseen by eight governments and nine civil society organizations. Forty-six governments have so far agreed to […]
Today the commitments of countries participating in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative were released on the newly launched website. The UK has set an important precedent in committing to publish aid information ‘from all government departments who spend overseas development assistance (ODA) in line with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards, extending coverage […]
Jonathan Glennie writes today on the Guardian Poverty Matters Blog that there needs to be an international agreement on basic principles to govern all major forms of development finance in his article ‘Busan conference offers chance to tackle aid effectiveness’. However he argues that “The risk of expanding the mandate to all flows is that […]
Today the Netherlands became the fifth donor to publish its aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) registry and deliver on its commitments for phase 1 of the IATI standard. They follow the UK, Hewlett Foundation, World Bank and Australia as the latest signatory to publish information. Preliminary analysis of the data suggests that the […]
