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The Global Campaign for Aid and Development Transparency

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Our Work

We started our campaign for aid transparency in 2008. Since then, most major international donors have published open aid data that is unprecedented in its detail and scope. Our flagship Aid Transparency Index shows how different donors compare in terms of transparency.

Beyond the Index, our work is about understanding and using open aid data. We partner with people in government, civil society and the media to access and use open aid data in specific sectors and countries. We believe that this is essential to making aid and development finance more effective and more accountable. Donors have a responsibility to publish information that is timely, comprehensive and forward-looking, but they also have a responsibility to make sure the information is useful and used.

Women’s Economic Empowerment

Our project is tracking funding to women’s economic empowerment, women’s financial inclusion and women’s empowerment collectives as well as assessing which donors have a gender integration approach, to build the evidence for better investments

DFI Transparency Initiative

Our initiative aims to work collaboratively with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and other stakeholders to increase the transparency of DFIs.

Localization

USAID wants 25% of its funding to go to local partners by 2025. But new research from Publish What You Fund finds that USAID’s measurement approach overestimates the percentage of funding counted as “local” meaning that local partners could miss out on over a billion dollars each year.

Gender Financing

Our project seeks to improve the publication of gender-related financial and programmatic data to achieve better development outcomes and ultimately to contribute to addressing gender inequality at the global level. Our focus is on data to track who is funding what, for what purpose, and with what results.

Improving UK Aid Transparency

Our programme of work to monitor and support the improvement of aid transparency across the UK Government

US Foreign Assistance

Our project to measure the impact of changes to the US foreign assistance budget through actively using open aid data.

Humanitarian Transparency

Our work to improve understanding of local and national humanitarian actors' needs, and investigate how better transparency and information sharing could help to address their challenges.

Initiative for Open Ag Funding

This project ended in December 2017. It supported donors to publish specific information on their activities to build a fuller picture of agricultural investments worldwide.

Webinars

Recordings of our webinars, including an introduction to the use of open aid data.

Data Use

Our research and project work on using development data for accountability and effectiveness in partner countries.

IATI Decipher

IATI Decipher is a new browser extension that visualises IATI organisation file data. For the first time, users unable to read xml code can access over 22,300 strategy documents and $2.6 trillion of global donor budget information.

Joined-up Data Standards

This project ended in December 2017. It aimed to make diverse data sets and standards compatible with each other, to create the fullest picture possible of development information.

Work Under Development

Discover more about the research topics and themes currently under development at Publish What You Fund and access our latest concept notes.

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