This is an opinion piece by Rupert Simons and Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, originally posted here on the Devex website. In December 2014, the U.S. government committed over $2 billion to the fight against Ebola: $1.4 billion of that was allocated to the U.S. Agency for International Development and $600 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — but […]
Last October, I went to Sierra Leone to work on Ebola. I helped set up a National Situation Room to compile data on the Ebola response, and use that data to drive decision-making. With its big projector screens and maps on the wall, it looked a bit like Mission Control. The Government of Sierra Leone […]
This is a guest post by Jonna Jeurlink, Senior Manager, Public Policy at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public-private partnership that was set up in the year 2000 with a mission to ensure that children in the lowest income countries have access to life saving vaccines. Since its creation, […]
Last week, I attended the launch of Publish What You Fund’s 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) at the Center for Global Development here in Washington, DC. During the event, one thing became clear to me: aid agencies around the world are hearing the drumbeat of the global aid transparency movement—and they’re beginning to respond. While a […]
December 1st is World AIDS Day, and many international organisations will be using this opportunity to talk about the successes and failures in the fight against this global disease. In the 2013 Aid Transparency Index, we look at two donors who specifically fund AIDS-related programmes – and it’s a mixed picture in terms of transparency. Find […]
