The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) on the 1st March released their 2011 Multilateral Aid Review (MAR) which included an assessment of the transparency and accountability of multilateral aid agencies. The review “asks whether organisations make comprehensive information about their policies and projects readily available to outsiders. It also asks whether they are accountable […]
On March 1st the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report demonstrating the necessity of interagency coordination, up to date information and federal transparency if taxpayers’ money is to be best spent to best effect. The first annual GAO report was requested by Congress to identify where government programs are overlapping, duplicated or fragmented. The […]
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard was finalised on the 9th February, and now the summary of what was agreed and technical details have been published. Please note the full standard will be made available here and on the IATI website during the week beginning the 21st February. IATI Standard Version 1 Technical Paper […]
After two years of negotiating, the 18 donors of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) agreed on 9th February the final details of a new global standard for publishing aid information. With this format in place that will make aid information internationally comparable, more information will now be better information. The new aid transparency standard […]
The Aid Transparency Blog by Devex and Publish What You Fund is up! As 2011 takes aid transparency from rhetoric to reality, we wanted to have a global conversation with people in all areas of development about what aid transparency means. That’s why we have set up a permanent space in the form of the […]
Publish What You Fund participated in a workshop in December 2010 on ‘The Evolving Global Aid Architecture’ which concluded that “aid transparency is a pre-requisite to unlocking the potential and impact of both aid and domestic revenues and systems in developing countries.” P.11 “The Evolving Global Aid Architecture: Chair‘s Summary of the Seoul Workshop” The […]
