Preliminary figures for 2017 Official Development Assistance show that aid has flatlined. Yet the ambitious targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals will require greater resources – a shift from mobilising billions to mobilising trillions. Private resources are expected to fill at least part of this gap. So to what extent are public resources already […]
This post was written by Sally Paxton, the US Representative for Publish What You Fund, and George Ingram, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally published on the Brookings Institution’s website The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have set ambitious targets to eradicate poverty […]
We’ve recently started looking into what role, if any, transparency could play in the push for more or better gender equality. And we’ve made some pretty interesting discoveries. We’ve been talking to implementing agencies about the need for gender disaggregated aid data. We’ve been analysing the data that is already available on IATI and OECD […]
We’ve recently begun looking into what role, if any, transparency could play in the push for more or better gender equality. Although we’re still in the early stages, along the way we’ve made some pretty interesting discoveries and wanted to share what we have learned so far. The data is needed The need for gender […]
A month or so ago, the IATI Dashboard looked a bit worse for wear: It had a big yellow banner announcing “technical issues”, and the footer text showed the data hadn’t been refreshed in 2 months. That’s problematic, because the Dashboard provides important statistics, charts and metrics relating to IATI data in the Registry. For […]
Do you know there is a wealth of past, present and future donor budgets, and a library of strategic documents within the IATI organisation file data? And do you know how to access them? If you are skilled in reading XML and interrogating raw data in the IATI Registry then perhaps the answer is yes. […]
