On 26th January, 35 CSOs from around the world wrote to aid donors, asking them to ensure that the International Aid Transparency Initiative agreed on 9th February “fully addresses the priority issues identified by partner countries”. We have received replies from 9 donors. You can read their responses below: Reply from Asian Development Bank 15.2.2011 […]
Congratulations go to the African Development Bank for becoming the 19th signatory to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. This means that they have endorsed the IATI Accra Statement, welcoming the commitments in the Accra Agenda for Action asking donors to provide regular, detailed and timely information on their aid. We look forward to them joining the […]
Repost from Florence Kuteesa, former budget director of Uganda. A global aid transparency movement, bringing together several initiatives with a shared vision[1], has received increasing interest and attention since the 2005 Paris Declaration for Aid Effectiveness. The main thrust of the movement is to make information about aid spending easier to access and understand by […]
Reposted from Owen Barder’s blog In this post, I’m going to look at the next steps, particularly focusing on how we can provide meaningful transparency for citizens in developing countries. There is a lot of detail below, so for busy readers here is a summary of the proposed ten steps for aid transparency. 1. Donors […]
Reposted from Owen Barder’s blog. The 8-point summary Here are what I think are the eight most important things I’ve learned in the last three years about transparency in general, and aid transparency in particular: To make a difference, transparency has to be citizen-centred not donor-centred. Citizen-centred transparency would allow citizens of developing countries to […]
Publish What You Fund has joined a coalition of organisations and over 2000 individuals in urging Congress leaders to protect US government spending on transparency programs. The letter, sent by the Sunlight Foundation, expresses “concerns over proposed budget reductions that would effectively eliminate important government transparency programs”. The danger is that new transparency sites such […]
