Today Karin Christiansen, Director of Publish What You Fund, spoke at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid and Trade (APPG DAT), which has a membership of over 170 MPs and Peers in the UK Parliament and has developed into a forum for discussion on crucial issues facing the developing world.
We are delighted to see the release of ‘Show Me the Money’, a valuable paper from Aidinfo which considers the issue of transparency in aid and the role that the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) plays.
Doug Hadden, Vice President of Products at FreeBalance, asks how corruption might best be understood and tackled in a Sustainable Public Financial Management blog post last week. Hadden starts with the common (if unarticulated) public feeling that recipients are largely responsible for the loss of aid money by corruption.
Uganda is a country that receives a lot of aid; over $1.7bn in 2009 alone. There’s a simple question to ask: How much aid is going to Uganda, and how large is it compared to government tax revenue? (The ODI looked at all aid to Uganda from 2003-2007, and found double the amount of aid […]
Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda: Evidence in aligning aid information with recipient country budgets
