Guest post by Laia Grino, Interaction. The Foreign Assistance Dashboard is about to go through a redesign process. Recognizing that it has a diverse audience with many different interests, the Dashboard team plans to consult a wide range of stakeholders, including in-country partners. For this, they deserve credit. The trick, however, will be not to fall prey […]
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has put together a great set of infograhics to increase awareness around EU aid, ‘10 things to know about EU aid‘. It highlights the relevance of the EU aid programme with 10 key facts, and is not unlike Oxfam America’s recent publication about US aid myths. Fact #4 mentions our Aid Transparency Index, saying that EU aid is […]
At the African Development Bank (AfDB) annual meetings this week in Kigali, the bank launched a new online platform to map out its investments across Africa. As we’ve said elsewhere, Publish What You Fund is pleased to see such a strong, on-going commitment to transparency by an influential organisation like the AfDB. It achieved the highest overall score among […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched a new online platform to map out its investments across in Africa, announced at the bank’s annual meeting in Kigali. Developed with AidData, MapAfrica is a geocoding tool that coordinates help identify the banks’ activities in different countries and regions. Their end goal is to enable citizens, governments and donors to view the locations of AfDB’s […]
The European Council this week released a report about EU spending on development, which says that while member states continue to fall short of their 0.7% Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment, the EU remains collectively the biggest global donor in the world. The report, Council Conclusions on Annual Report 2014 to the European Council on EU Development Aid Targets, focuses on the quantity […]
Guest post by Rob Morello, Center for Global Development Last week, Ben Leo and I launched a beta version of US Development Initiatives: Where in the World Are They. It allows users to geographically explore US development policy efforts as well as the quantity of aid commitments and the magnitude of trade and investment. Do you want […]
