Yesterday, Oxfam America launched Foreign Aid 101 – a quick and easy guide to understanding US foreign aid that aims to clear up some long-held misconceptions about American aid. Encouragingly, it said that most Americans (80%) hold the view that developed countries have “a moral responsibility to work to reduce hunger and severe poverty in poor countries.” But most […]
As you might imagine, as soon as one year’s Aid Transparency Index (ATI) is finalised and out of the door – or on our site – we turn our minds to the next year that lies ahead. The launch always seems like a date far away at that point, but as this is our fourth […]
It is almost two months since I started working at Publish What You Fund. The intensity of my induction has been proportionate to the level of expertise the organisation has accumulated since it was founded – and that is significant! My first weeks started with our Aid Transparency Index (ATI) being cited multiple times by U.S. pundits […]
Guest post by Martin Akerman, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) In line with our commitment under the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) plans to release quarterly updates to its implementation schedule and is on track to be compliant with the standards set by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), […]
Last week, the South Korean Government in Seoul announced it will join the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) – the first being in charge of grants and the second in charge of loans – will both join IATI by 2015. Rachel Rank, […]
Guest post by Till Bruckner, Transparify Over the past two decades, support by Western donors has led to an explosion in the number of think tanks in developing countries. Conventional wisdom has it that such think tanks strengthen democracy and improve the policy formulation process. They are thought to enrich public and political debates by […]
