New papers from the World Bank
The World Bank Institute’s Access to Information Program has published three papers, covering issues including proactive transparency, access to information, and citizen participation:
New U.S. Strategy for meeting the MDGs
Publish What You Fund welcomes the new US strategy for meeting the Millennium Development Goals unveiled on Friday July 30 by Administrator Shah. We strongly commend Dr. Shah on his continued commitment to aid transparency and applaud his continued efforts in “preserving and accelerating the momentum toward the MDGs”.
Summary of the 2010 DCF meeting released
The final Summary of the 2010 New York Development Cooperation Forum (DCF), has been released by the President of ECOSOC, Nihil Seth. Contributions by national governments, parliamentarians and representatives of civil society and local governments at the June meeting produced strategic and action oriented recommendations for achieving the MDGs on the basis of more and better development cooperation.
Ingram praises new foreign aid legislation
George Ingram, Co-Chrairman of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, last week in the Huffington Post praised House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) for releasing a “thoughtful draft” of new legislation authorizing U.S. foreign assistance. Ingram says it is long overdue, having not been renewed since 1961, but “proposes specific policies and mechanisms to make the entire U.S.
Enthusiasm in EU for spending transparency
Transparency International (TI) EU wrote last month of the mounting awareness and support for increased transparency in spending of EU funds.
Haiti Aid Map launched by InterAction
Interaction have just launched ‘Haiti Aid Map’, a prototype website developed by InterAction which maps 1045 relief and development projects operated by a total of 47 organizations in Haiti. It allows users to visualise NGO activities happening on the ground in near real time. The data can be filtered by commune, "cluster" (the issue area a program focuses on), or the organization operating the project.