Press Release: Crunch Time for Aid Reform
Visualising Aid and Domestic Spending in Uganda
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
Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda: Evidence in aligning aid information with recipient country budgets
IATI Letters to Ministers
Ahead of the 7 July International Aid Transparency Initiative Steering Committee meeting in Paris, CSOs from around the world urged development ministers to support an aid transparency standard which ensured more effective foreign assistance. On 28 July CSOs sent follow-up letters encouraging IATI signatories to continue their participation in advance of the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in November 2011.
Shah: USAID needs major reform
Rajiv Shah, director of the U.S. government’s Agency for International Development, USAID, once more promised major reform of the aid agency in a speech at the National Press Club last Friday, 18th June.
More transparency in U.S. aid to Pakistan?
Earlier this month, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry urged Ambassador Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, to make U.S. objectives, plans and disbursements of aid to Pakistan more transparent.