The Government of Japan this week published aid data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative for the first time. This exciting development sees data from both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) appearing in the IATI Registry. David Hall-Matthews, Director of Publish What You Fund, said: ‘We are very pleased to see Japan engaging with […]
We recently joined civil society networks and organisations worldwide in calling for the EU’s new leadership to commit to close engagement with – and eventual membership of – the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Since its launch in 2011, we have supported the OGP as a multi-stakeholder mechanism enabling participating countries to commit to making their governments more […]
Getting the right information into the right hands: Transparency and Open data for the Post-2015 Agenda Thursday 10 July at 1.15-2.45pm Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium UN Development Cooperation Forum, New York City – LIVESTREAM HERE – This event will create a multi-stakeholder dialogue on how transparency, open data and accountability enhance the impact of the Post-2015 agenda and […]
The Netherlands Ministry of International Trade and Development Cooperation have launched a new budget webpage. It is first site of its kind to offer the potential to track national budget all the way to local delivery projects, and something worth shouting about. That said, it is also perhaps not the most intuitive site, so I asked Theo […]
The U.S. is on-course to meet many of its open government commitments, according to the latest civil society progress report on the Government’s National Action Plan. Specifically on foreign assistance transparency, the U.S. has made partial progress. In recent months, that progress seems to be accelerating. The report notes that “in order for the U.S. government to meet its […]
In the last few weeks the Foreign Assistance Dashboard added two new U.S. agencies to its list of publishers. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its aid information on May 28 and the State Department on June 1. Publish What You Fund welcomes this progress, but initial analysis raises some very basic quality issues. […]
