FreeBalance, a Government Resource Planning Enterprise announced on the 15th March that the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste has launched their web-based Transparency Portal. The Timor-Leste Transparency Portal allows citizens to access historical and recent government financial information to monitor state funds’ effectiveness. Detail provided includes amounts allocated expenditure location, and program data. […]
Civil society organisations of the IATI Steering Committee have written to donors congratulating them on developing a common standard for aid information. We look forward to the implementation of IATI in advance of the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in November 2011. ADB IATI Implementation letter March 2011 Australia IATI Implementation […]
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 […]
