Publish What You Fund welcomes the essay on foreign affairs by Hilary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, who has emphasized greater coordination in U.S. foreign assistance. Clinton’s essay comes in anticipation of the eagerly awaited Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) tipped to be released next month. Clinton alludes to the importance of using partner […]
Publish What You Fund has developed an Aid Transparency Assessment. This is the first global assessment for aid transparency and we plan to produce more in the future.
20th October is World Statistics Day. AidInfo have demonstrated the value of statistics in poverty alleviation with a blog which points to Publish What You Fund’s forthcoming Aid Transparency Assessment as an example of the essential and enlightening nature of data. Read below or on their new-look site.
Today, 19th October sees the release of the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey 2010.
Marc Purcell, Executive Director of the Australian Council for International Development, urges greater transparency in Australian aid to Afghanistan on 16th October in The Australian. He highlights the importance of delineating aid and military spending and for improved aid transparency in AusAID.
On 13th October the UK aid transparency guarantee was examined by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, with queries addressed to Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development.
