Samantha Attridge and Gary Forster discuss the critical role of transparency in achieving development and climate finance goals, and preview this year’s DFI Transparency Index, highlighting where we’re looking for breakthroughs, and where stumbling blocks may remain.
The forthcoming 2025 DFI Transparency Index includes most of the world’s leading bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions (DFIs). However, a group of seven bilateral DFIs with trillions of dollars in assets are not included. Why? The top line answer is that their levels of transparency are so low that no meaningful assessment is possible. This blog explores some of those unassessed DFIs, where their disclosure practices fall short, and the real world consequences of this lack of transparency.
Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring the launch of the DFI Transparency Index, a chance to catch up on our recent discussion on the future for local funding and our research on the local funding provided by top donors, and the opportunity to learn how to find aid and development data.
Publish What You Fund’s three recent localisation studies have found that commitments from major donors and philanthropies to increase local funding have not yet led to meaningful change. Our latest research, Metrics Matter III: Counting Local, shows that five major bilateral donors are still only providing a fraction of their funding directly to local organisations. […]
Today, we are launching Metrics Matter III: Counting Local, the third instalment in our Metrics Matter research series tracking direct funding to local organisations. Our findings reveal that despite strong rhetoric, donor funding practices have yet to meaningfully reflect the localisation agenda.
USAID (United States Agency for International Development) started publishing data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in 2013. You can find information about USAID’s programs using a range of sources, featured on this page.
