The Government of the Netherlands, Publish What You Fund, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) co-organized a lunchtime discussion titled ‘Open data for Development in the Financing for Development Outcome’ hosted by UNDP, around the Financing for Development first drafting session in New York last week. The poor weather in New York led to the initial […]
This is a guest blog written by the European Union Delegation to Myanmar. All photos credited to Leigh Mitchell. Donors and aid have flooded into Myanmar since the Government began its democratic transition and unprecedented social and economic reform programme in 2011. Myanmar officials quickly realised that it would be difficult to manage and guide this assistance without the […]
Years ago, I spent a summer working in the research department of an investment bank. My job was to analyse company data and spot long-term trends in equities markets. As finance professionals know, the data can be overwhelming: numbers blinking on Bloomberg terminals, scrolling across TV screens and clogging up your email in endless reports. […]
A group of international CSOs, including Publish What You Fund, have submitted a letter to Directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) expressing concerns that the Bank’s draft transparency policy is a backwards step and not in keeping with other international financial institutions and official actors, who are improving their transparency and accountability policies. The […]
This is a guest post by Jonna Jeurlink, Senior Manager, Public Policy at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public-private partnership that was set up in the year 2000 with a mission to ensure that children in the lowest income countries have access to life saving vaccines. Since its creation, […]
This blog was written by MFAN Co-Chairs George Ingram, Carolyn Miles, and Connie Veillette. It was originally published on the MFAN blog here. On Tuesday, President Obama delivered his next-to-last State of the Union address in which he laid out an ambitious, and largely domestic, agenda for his last two years of office. While the […]
