Owen Barder, Director of the AidInfo project at Development Initiatives, speaks to the Center for Global Development about why aid transparency matters. The interview does an excellent job in explaining why aid transparency is needed, how it can be implemented, and what impacts it might have.
‘Embracing Government 2.0: Leading transformative change in the public sector’ is the recently published white paper co-authored by Doug Hadden at FreeBalance and Martha Batorski at Grant Thornton. The paper explores the skills and mindsets governments need to employ to make changes, such as increasing transparency with use of the emerging environment and technologies of open information.
‘An Eye on Aid’, published today in American Prospect magazine by Justin Charity relays an conversation with Karin Christiansen which gets to the root of why Publish What You Fund exists.
Friday, 5th March saw the UK launch of the “Untying Aid” report at a discussion hosted by Publish What You Fund and the Overseas Development Institute. The OCED commissioned report on ‘Untying Aid: Is it working?’ was chaired by Alison Evans, and included discussants of; Richard Manning; Karin Christiansen, Director of Publish What You Fund; Frans Lammersen, Chair of the OECD Development Co-ordination Directorate, and Ted Kliest from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A survey sponsored by the International Consortium of Governmental Financial Management has reviewed the experiences of 35 national governments who are increasing the transparency of financial information to achieve more informed and efficient management of public sector resources.
While the report focuses on governments’ financial operations more generally, from a Publish What You Fund perspective this might have interesting implications for greater transparency in improving how donors deliver aid more effectively.
