The Department of Defense (DOD) foreign assistance resources are used to train, equip, and support foreign defense and security establishments. US-DOD remained in the middle of the ‘fair’ category for the 2018 Index and is the lowest scoring US agency. Publish What You Fund calls on Defense to: US-DOD should regularly update its data to […]

The Department of State is responsible for the implementation of US foreign policy and supports its foreign assistance programs, including those of USAID and PEPFAR. It leads on the design and implementation of the Foreign Assistance Dashboard (foreignassistance.gov). In the 2018 Index, US-State places at the top of the ‘fair’ category. Publish What You Fund […]

PEPFAR is the US government’s global initiative to combat HIV/AIDS. It is formally part of the Department of State and oversees and directly approves all activities relating to combating HIV/AIDS in priority countries. PEPFAR has improved in comparison to the 2016 Index and is now placed in the ‘good’ category. We welcome this improvement and […]

As the largest bilateral aid agency in the world, the quality of USAID’s data publication makes a huge difference to the state of global aid transparency.  In the 2018 Index, USAID moved up to the ‘good’ category from ‘fair’ in 2016. USAID is now publishing directly to the IATI Registry, allowing it to post more […]

Created by US Congress in 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an independent bilateral US foreign aid agency. The agency currently manages compacts and threshold programmes in 45 countries, and has just been given authority to have regional programs. MCC remains the leading US aid agency in terms of transparency and in the 2018 Index was […]