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 […]
On 11th January Interaction relaunched their ‘HaitiAidMap’. The site brings transparency to the relief and recovery effort in Haiti by pulling together information on where aid money is going, and where NGOs are working. HaitiAidMap provides up-to-date and accurate information on 77 NGOs and 491 projects operating in the country. With all this information in […]
Richard Manning, chair of IDS, former chair of the OECD DAC, and peer reviewer of our Aid Transparency Assessment, urges donors to “step up action on the transparency of their own aid delivery” in a contribution to the German Marshall Fund blog in December 2010. Manning advocates increased transparency, accountability and response to local performance […]
