Today Australia became the fifth organisation and third major official donor to publish aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative registry, having released all of its aid documents to the international standard’s website. This comes after data releases by the UK, World Bank, Hewlett Foundation, and Development Initiatives Poverty Research, and sets an important precedent for […]
The 2011 Reality of Aid Report ‘Democratic Ownership and Development Effectiveness: Civil Society Perspectives on Progress since Paris’ overview chapter was released in advance of the full report launch planned for October at the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness meetings in Paris. The overview explains the current issue of a lack of aid information, and […]
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This visualization shows Ugandan government spending alongside overseas aid for financial years 2003/4, 2004/5, and 2005/6. This is the first time that an exercise like this has been done and shows what would be possible if donors published information about their aid, which could be mapped alongside recipient countries’ domestic spending. Currently this comparison is […]
Congratulations to Madagascar who have become the 22nd partner country to endorse the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). It means that Madagascar are the 10th African country to endorse IATI, which highlights the growing African consensus on the need for greater aid transparency. By endorsing IATI as a partner country, they have approved the IATI […]
Publish What You Fund Director, Karin Christiansen, today submitted a response to the UK newspaper The Guardian’s 29 July article “US foreign aid ‘needs greater coherence’, report says”: Having just got back from a trip to the US where we met different officials from the many different aid agencies, I couldn’t agree more with the […]
