Guest post by Donald Kaberuka, President of African Development Bank Group In unsteady economic times, it was significant to see that transparency remained a crucial topic of discussion at the G8 in Lough Erne. Even more significant was that all the countries at the table walked away with a firm commitment to increasing transparency, in everything from […]
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has become the first multilateral development bank to publish private sector and geocoded aid data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The AfDB became the 19th signatory to IATI in April 2011. IATI is a voluntary initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid in order to increase its effectiveness […]
AidData, in partnership with The Strauss Center’s Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program, has released the pilot version of its dynamic mapping tool. The online portal allows people to visualise African climate change, conflict, and now Malawian aid information side by side. “The complex pathways from climate change to security impacts have demanded […]
‘Still Our Common Interest: Commission for Africa Report 2010’ was published on Monday 13th September to examine what has happened since the 2005 report, ‘Our Common Interest’ which set out measures for the creation of a strong and prosperous Africa.
Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda: Evidence in aligning aid information with recipient country budgets
The Financial Times has launched a series examining "whether Africa is finally turning the corner." In the first installment, the paper published an interesting interactive graph that compares African countries’ foreign aid support as a percentage of government spending, from 1980 to 2008. In 2008, foreign aid to Liberia represented 771% of government spending, up from 652% in 2007, 369% in 2006 and 218% in 2005.
