This blog has been co-authored by Elise Dufief, Research and Monitoring Manager, Publish What You Fund and Claire Schouten, Senior Programme Officer, International Budget Partnership. At the core of the relationship between citizens and the state are decisions about how public resources are raised and spent. Budgets are the most important economic policy tool available to […]
This post was written by George Ingram, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally published on the Brookings Institution’s website on June 21st, 2018. On June 20, Brookings hosted the launch of the 2018 Aid Transparency Index, the only independent measure of aid transparency […]
A case study of Winnie Kamau, and her work to strengthen evidence-based journalism in Kenya.
Why aid transparency matters from Publish What You Fund on Vimeo. This video has both English and French subtitles – just click the CC in the bottom right hand corner to select them.
This blog was written by Sally Paxton, our US representative, and George Ingram, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chair of the Board of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally posted on June 13th on the Brookings Institution’s Website. The U.S. publishes an enormous amount of data on foreign assistance—including detailed information on […]
This blog includes input from Research Assistant Ines Schultes. Thanks to Luca De Fraia, Deputy Secretary General of ActionAid Italy for comments on an earlier draft. On 4th March, Italian voters will be going to the polls for their general elections. Following an increase in the budget, international development cooperation appears to be back on the […]
