2015 Aid Transparency Reviews
Our 2015 Reviews assessed a smaller number of key donors in the run up to the Busan deadline and were released in mid-2015 2015 EU Aid Transparency Review 2015 U.S. Aid Transparency Review
Civil society calls on EU to join Open Government Partnership
Publish What You Fund has sent a letter alongside Access Info Europe, Open Society European Policy Institute, and 50 international civil society organisations, which calls on Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to encourage EU institutions to sign up to the Open Government Partnership (OGP). As a civil society collective, we believe the OGP presents a series of […]
What’s next for U.S. Government aid transparency? Data quality for data use
This is a guest post by Josh Powell, Director of Innovation at Development Gateway Earlier this month, Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Aid Transparency Review showed strong improvements from the U.S. Government (USG). In particular, USAID should be congratulated for its leap from a narrowly achieved “Fair” to a solid “Good,” while MCC continues to […]
Using data to save lives
This is a guest post from Erin Hohlfelder & Joe Kraus, the ONE Campaign (originally posted on the ONE blog here) Keeping track of financial information isn’t most people’s idea of a fun time. Perhaps that explains why people enjoy making jokes about accounting (“It’s accrual world.” or “Why did the accountant cross the road? To bore […]
France launches first OGP action plan
Yesterday, France launched its first Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan in Paris. Publish What You Fund welcomes the plan and is pleased to see that the document contains commitments for France’s development cooperation to become more transparent (see Commitment 3, p.15). France are taking over as an OGP Co-Chair in October and we’re confident […]
Ebola and information: Why donors must publish what they fund
This is an opinion piece by Rupert Simons and Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, originally posted here on the Devex website. In December 2014, the U.S. government committed over $2 billion to the fight against Ebola: $1.4 billion of that was allocated to the U.S. Agency for International Development and $600 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — but […]