“Transparent Aid” by Karin Christiansen, Director of Publish What You Fund, features in the November edition of Interaction’s Monday Development’s Magazine. The article discusses the potential role for greater aid transparency in U.S. Global Development Policy. Outlining the current reporting framework and habits of the many U.S. aid-giving agencies, Christiansen describes a system which has […]
The Bangkok Call for Action is a set of recommendations which have been developed at the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Finance and Aid Effectiveness dialogue held on 19th-20th October 2010 in Bangkok. The meeting focussed on the necessity of climate funding being used effectively, and as such transparency in funds was highlighted as a prerequisite. The […]
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has this month released its Business Plan for 2011–2015. Central to the plan is a commitment to ensuring aid transparency within DFID to deliver value for money to the taxpayer, government accountability, and improved aid effectiveness: “DFID regards transparency as fundamental to improving its accountability to UK citizens […]
The shift to Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives means aid transparency is set to emerge as an area of common ground. As Representative John Boehner (R-OH) said in July this year, “The American people […] deserve to be a part of an open and transparent process”. Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) highlighted just […]
Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institute argues that the benefit of aid transparency far outweighs the cost in his new paper ‘Transparency: Changing the Accountability, Engagement and Effectiveness of Aid.’ Kharas points to the ‘3Ws of transparency’: What is being funded and to what end, who is funding it, and where it is located. Kharas […]
The World Bank Group and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have partnered to make the aid information we have more accessible. Aidflows has mapped aid money as it goes from donor to recipient. This initiative is part of the World Bank’s ongoing efforts to enhance the open access to data and information on development aid. Although […]
