“A few million dollars is just a drop in the ocean,” said Muchiri Nyaggah, Executive Director of Kenyan think-tank Local Development Research Institute (LDRI), “but if you know exactly where and how it is needed then you can really achieve something.” Muchiri and I were discussing how access to structured sub-national location data can improve […]
This is a guest blog post by George Ingram, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chair of the Friends of Publish What You Fund. The original blog was posted on the Brookings site on November 17th. America has just come through a grueling, divisive election. While President-elect Trump has articulated views on various domestic […]
Publish What You Fund will take part in an event at the High Level Meeting in Nairobi as part of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC). The event is being co-hosted by the African Development Bank, UNDP, World Food Programme and IATI. It will run from 7.45 – 9.00am in the Lenana Room […]
Your chance to provide feedback on the methodology of the Aid Transparency Index Since October 2016, Publish What You Fund has been working with peer reviewers and a selected number of experts and independent partners across the globe to design an updated proposal for the methodology of the Aid Transparency Index. We want this to […]
This guest blog was written by Okeke Celestine, Leader Partner of the MSME Advocacy and Support Initiative in Nigeria. Agricultural investments in Nigeria are critical to transition our agricultural sector from largely subsistence small holder farming to commercial agriculture enterprises. The sort needed to stimulate local economies and enable Nigeria to reduce its food import […]
This guest blog was written by Rosemonde Apata, President of MAFUBO Côte d’Ivoire — a non-profit which works to ensure Ivorian women are financially independent, safe from violence and have access to decent housing, healthcare and education. Everyday thousands of women die during or shortly after childbirth. Regrettably, too many families in my country, Côte […]
