Publish What You Fund is pleased to announce that it is joining the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data which is launching in New York today, International Right to Know Day. Publish What You Fund has campaigned for aid transparency since we were founded in 2009. We advocate for more and better data to track […]
This is a guest post by Rodney Bent, Independent Consultant With much hoopla in December 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, aka the QDDR. This substantial document, 90 pages worth, was intended to replicate for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development what […]
This is a guest post by Claire Schouten, International Budget Partnership The Open Budget Survey 2015 just came out and it shares important findings for transparent, participatory and accountable development. In its fifth edition since 2006, the survey covers 102 countries and is the only independent, comparative measure of budget transparency and accountability. So what does it […]
Opening Data – from Publication to Use for Sustainable Development Date: Monday 21 September 15:00-17.00 Place: Action Aid 33-39 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R 0BJ The importance of open and transparent data on aid flows into developing countries is now a generally accepted principle – it aims to enable better coordination of donors, more […]
In less than two weeks, heads of states, representatives of civil society organisations, academia, businesses, the UN system and other stakeholders will be gathering at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit. The summit is the culmination of a process that took almost 3 years to complete. It began with a High Level Panel report on […]
We are pleased to announce that Publish What You Fund is joining a new coalition aimed at joining up data standards. The Joined Up Data Alliance brings together experts in development cooperation, humanitarian relief, public contracting and natural resource governance to collaborate on the development and use of data standards. Rupert Simons, CEO of Publish […]
