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 […]
On 28th January the UK Department for International Development (DFID) became the first aid donor to publish what they fund. Demonstrating continued leadership on aid transparency and fulfilling promises made in Accra in 2008, DFID is now the first agency in the world to put its aid information through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) […]
The European Commission is in the process of revising its development policy. Publish What You Fund engaged in the consultation process with other European NGOs. The result is a response to the Commission’s Green Paper “EU Development policy in support of inclusive growth and sustainable development: Increasing the impact of EU Development Policy” which has […]
Update (4th April): We’ve received replies to eight letters already. Read the replies here. On 9th February, a meeting of the International Aid Transparency Initiative Steering Committee in Paris will agree the final details of the global standard for publishing aid information. In advance of this meeting, 35 civil society organisations from around the world […]
This week, Eurodad and its members urged the European Commission to ensure Multinational Companies (MNCs) report their Financial Information on a country-by-country basis to achieve greater financial transparency and impede tax evasion in developing countries. At present there are no regulations in place to ensure that companies operating in the EU have to disclose financial […]
