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.
Join us on 28 May as we bring together voices from local groups, INGOs, think tanks and funders to explore the current state of locally led development, the old and new barriers to change, and what needs to happen for local actors to have the power, resources and recognition they deserve. We’ll discuss if this is the time to rethink how we approach localisation.
Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring News on our upcoming event discussing the local funding provided by major donors, our research papers on the transparency of climate funds and the additionality of development finance institutions, plus a range of blogs on the need to expand transparency beyond ODA, Financing for Development 4, protecting US transparency and a new chair for Friends of Publish What You Fund.
