Aid Transparency in UK House of Commons
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.
An Open Data Revolution
Aleem Walji considers the potential of an Open Data revolution on 8th October on the World Bank blog ‘Development Marketplace’.
World Bank to demonstrate possibilities for aid data
On Thursday 7th October the World Bank launched the ‘Apps for Development’ competition. The competition aims to bring together the best ideas from tech developers and development practitioners to create innovative apps using World Bank data.
Whittle: “IATI has made more progress than I imagined possible.
Dennis Whittle, Founder and CEO of Global Giving, writes in the Huffington Post on Thursday 7th October that ‘IATI has made much more progress than I imagined possible’ after leaving last week’s conference ‘encouraged by the possibilities and by the people working on it.’
QuODA ranks countries’ aid effectiveness
Yesterday, Tuesday 5th October, saw the Center for Global Development (CGD), in cooperation with the Brookings Institution, release its “Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment” (QuODA) report.
Transparency fundamental to aid effectiveness in Uganda
Samuel Moon and Tim Williamson at the Overseas Development Institute have written a background paper setting out possible steps to improve aid effectiveness in Uganda and ensuring the government-donor partnership remains relevant.