This post has been written by Publish What You Fund’s CEO Rupert Simons and Head of Policy and Advocacy Jeannet Lingán. Two months remain until the third international conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) in Addis Ababa. The conference is intended to agree actions in the implementation of unfinished past financing for development commitments (Monterrey […]
There’s now just one week to go until the general election here in the UK. We’ve been looking at the party manifestos and are pleased to see a cross-party awareness of the importance of open data. At the same time, the manifestos are lacking in specific details on what will be done to further the […]
Over the last few months, we’ve been working with five donor partners (Canada DFATD, DFID, UNDP, USAID and the World Bank) to pilot the integration of aid with partner country budgets in five countries. We have found this approach to be successful in mapping aid to country budgets, in order to create a full picture of the […]
Over the course of 2015, we’re coordinating the Road to 2015 campaign, which aims to up the pressure on governments. We want them to work harder to achieve their existing commitments to publishing their data and ensure transparency is a core element of the future development landscape via the SDGs and beyond. This week, governments are […]
Details: 11:00 – 12:30 on Friday 17th April in room: I 2 – 250 at the World Bank Publish What You Fund will host an event during the World Bank Spring Meetings asking what lessons have been learned in the Ebola response and whether open data could have improved it. At the recent EU Ebola Recovery […]
This week the U.S. – the world’s single largest bilateral donor – will join other governments for meetings at the UN to consider the draft of the expected outcome document ahead of the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) in Addis Ababa in July. Part of the purpose of this effort is to […]
