Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring a new resource providing examples of how aid and development data is being used in practice, plus a review of what you can and can’t find out about the World Bank’s gender investments.
As the World Bank prepares to finalise its new gender strategy, we ask how you can identify World Bank projects targeting gender equality, their location, sector, amount of funding and most importantly their impact. In short, you can’t. We set out why this matters for accountability and how the Bank should address the transparency gaps in its gender strategy and implementation plan.
Our regular newsletter featuring the latest on the UK’s aid transparency commitments, new research examining USAID’s progress on localisation funding, a review of our activities in 2023 and our recommendations on how the World Bank could improve the transparency of its gender investments.
The Bond Transparency Working Group has been collaborating with the FCDO to push for more and better transparency in the UK aid budget. They have been successful in updating the UK’s aid transparency commitment. In this blog, Elma Jenkins looks at what this means for the UK’s aid transparency and where more work is still needed.
2023 has seen some challenging times for the international development community, but also some glimmers of hope. At Publish What You Fund we’ve remained focused on encouraging aid and development agencies to be more transparent about their planning, spending and results. Here we roundup what we’ve been working on over the past year, and the progress that’s been made.
Daryl Grisgraber (Oxfam America)joins Gary Forster and Sally Paxton to highlight new Oxfam America research which uses Publish What You Fund’s methodology to track the US Agency for International Development’s localization goal.
