Fran Perrin stepped down as Chair of the Board at Publish What You Fund at the June 2015 meeting. We are hugely grateful to Fran for her support to the organisation over the past two years and are pleased to say she will remain a member of the Board until March 2016. We are happy to […]
On July 1st, Publish What You Fund released its 2015 U.S. Aid Transparency Review, which assesses the progress of six U.S. donors on their efforts to publish high quality aid information. The Busan deadline – December 2015 – is when the U.S. has committed to fully implementing the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). And important […]
IATI, Publish What You Fund, Open Contracting Partnership, Transparency International, the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), and UNDP are holding a side event at the Financing for Development conference. Please find details below and view the full invite with map here. The Role of Data Standards and International Initiatives in Mobilizing and Monitoring Financing […]
Washington, DC – Lack of aid transparency by main U.S. government agencies is hindering development outcomes in some of the poorest countries in the world, says Publish What You Fund’s latest report. The U.S. is the world’s largest single provider of foreign assistance, giving $27bn of critical development assistance in 2013 alone. Yet four out […]
This is a guest post from Sheila Herrling, Senior Vice President for Social Innovation at the Case Foundation and member of Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Advisory Committee I’m a big believer in transparency. And not just because it’s the “right thing to do” but because it’s the “smart thing to do” if you care […]
Blog post by George Ingram, chair of our U.S. Advisory Committee & Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. This blog was originally posted on the Brooking’s Institution website here. The end of 2015 is the date by which institutions are supposed to fulfill their commitment to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). To both assess where the […]
