A great development today: Kenya has become the first African government to launch an Open Data portal. The data catalogue includes a large amount of detailed spending data, including the audited public expenditures for 2002/3-2008/9, and the Community Development Fund. The fact that Kenya has published such detailed spending data is good news from the […]
An independent review of Australian aid effectiveness has made recommendations for greater transparency of Australian aid. The Australian cabinet has agreed, in principle, to the vast majority of the recommendations, including the implementation of a Transparency Charter that will be issued at the end of this year. The review notes that the Australian aid program […]
International development campaign group ONE this week launched their Agriculture Accountability Report which provides a “principle-by-principle and country-by-country assessment of progress against both financial and non-financial AFSI pledges, focusing on the G7 and the European Commission (EC).” http://www.one.org/c/international/hottopic/3934/ Key recommendations include “improvement of transparency and accountability of delivering on promises by agreeing to a unified […]
In a high level meeting taking place at the U.S. State Department today and launched by Secretary Clinton and Brazilian Foreign Minister Patriota, ministers from nearly 60 countries join representatives from more than 40 civil society organisations to discuss best practices, tools, technologies and methodologies to enhance open government, including aid transparency. The event is […]
The first handover of the Make Aid Transparent petition signed by 5012 people from 115 countries took place at a crucial meeting of aid officials at the headquarters of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris yesterday. The co-Chairs of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, Talaat Abdel Malek and Bert Koenders, […]
The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) has recently released a position paper setting out what CABRI sees as sufficient levels of aid transparency in order for aid to work better in African countries. The paper considers aid transparency as ‘…an indispensible pillar for the achievement of sustainable development in Africa’, highlighting its relevance for […]
