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 […]
The UK Aid Network (UKAN) and organisations undersigned welcome the UK Aid Transparency Guarantee, and we are pleased to have the opportunity to input to the consultation. We strongly welcome the inclusion in the Guarantee the focus on achieving transparency across the international aid system and the formation of international standards through the International Aid […]
Transparency of Chinese Aid: An analysis of the published information on Chinese external financial flows.
A White Paper launched by FreeBalance in June emphasises that greater integration between donor and recipient budget systems is crucial to the success of aid transparency. The paper argues that the rationalisation needed to integrate different operational systems is not as complex and expensive as previously thought, and could be achieved relatively quickly and inexpensively […]
BetterAid has submitted civil society views to the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-Eff) in response to the first draft of the Busan Outcome Document (BOD). The CSO platform notes that the document does reflect a number of key civil society concerns but does not adequately address the key challenges, findings and core messages demanded […]
The World Bank has increased access to its data by launching the World Bank Finances website; the newest addition to the Bank’s open data site. This is a welcome and very encouraging development in the wake of the World Bank’s first publication to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in May. The website includes detailed […]
