This post was written by David Duffeck, Senior Program Associate at InterAction. It is part of a blog series, where Initiative for Open Ag Funding partners share findings from their recent consultations with NGOs, donors, and foundations to understand the development community’s data needs and challenges in the agriculture and food security sector. Join the conversation and learn […]
The Joined-Up Data Standards (JUDS) project is seeking feedback on a new consultation paper. The paper seeks to collect and draw on solutions to the challenges posed by incompatibility – or interoperability – between different data standards. Data has immense potential to help drive poverty eradication through efficient and effective programming and funding. However, it […]
This blog post was written by David Duffeck, Senior Program Associate at InterAction and was placed on their website on Monday 11th July 2016. Although the world economy has grown for 54 out of the past 55 years, almost 800 million people today still suffer from hunger. Millions more live in poverty. Smarter investments in agriculture […]
This event is organised by the Governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom in collaboration with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), Publish What You Fund, Transparency International and UNDP. When: Monday, 18th July 07:45 – 9.00 EDT. Light breakfast served starting at 7:30 am. Where: United Nations Secretariat, Conference Building, Conference Room B (first basement), […]
This blog was originally posted by ONE Germany here Das Thema Transparenz hat in den letzten Jahren international und hierzulande an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Unterzeichnung der „Open Data Charta“ 2013 auf dem G8-Gipfel in Lough Erne war ein wichtiger erster Meilenstein und dass Transparenz und Rechenschaftslegung in der neuen Agenda 2030 als Kernprinzipien einer wirksamen […]
The findings of the 2016 Aid Transparency Index reveal that, yet again, very little progress has been made by organisations in the publication of results – especially when it comes to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Results are crucial. They allow for the impact of aid to be measured, outcomes evaluated, and best practices to […]
