Guest post by Paul O’Brien, Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America I wonder if USAID’s Raj Shah is reading Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”. Op-ed writers in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times think the book may help progressives rediscover their mojo, and help all sides overcome false […]
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first high level meeting tomorrow in Mexico City. Established following the Fourth High Level Forum in Busan, South Korea in 2011, the Global Partnership aims to make development cooperation more effective. More than 1300 representatives from governments, civil society, multilateral organisations and the […]
This document was prepared by Publish What You Fund and does not necessarily reflect the official views of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC). This paper draws on a range of evidence sources and is designed to complement and deepen the analysis available from the GPEDC 2014 Progress Report to foster useful discussions […]
Guest post by Mamadou Honadia, Chair of the Adaptation Fund Board The Adaptation Fund has published its project data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) registry today. In making its data public and searchable on IATI’s platform, the Fund joins 234 other organizations, including the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the Gates Foundation, that […]
Next week, the world’s development actors will meet at the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico. The meeting is an opportunity to kick-start efforts to ensure governments’ transparency commitments on development cooperation are met by 2015. Along with more than 50 other organisations, networks and individuals, we have written advocacy […]
Less than two weeks before development leaders meet in Mexico to review global progress in making aid more effective, a report has found that donors are not yet delivering on their promise to publish better information about aid. Produced by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), the ‘Making Development Co-operation More Effective’ report measures […]
