News Roundup – Noisy Data, New ODA Data, DFI Updates & Australian aid
Our fortnightly news roundup, including our noisy data blog and updates from OECD DAC, ODI,IATICGD plus news on the Australian aid budget and US DFC.
Does Noisy Data Put IATI Users Off?
Silvia Poggioli, country director of AIFO Liberia, talks to us about her experience of using IATI data and the challenges of navigating thousands of activities.
International Women’s Day – Where’s the Development Data?
For the last few months at Publish What You Fund, we’ve been looking into the need, availability and transparency of gender data in international development, and we thought there couldn’t be a better time to share some of our findings than International Women’s Day. What information do we need? When asking basic questions – which […]
News Roundup – Avoiding Groundhog Day on US Foreign Assistance Cuts, Our Views on the IATI Strategy and the Importance of Documentation
Our fortnightly roundup of news and events, featuring our blogs on IATI’s strategy and the US foreign assistance budget, plus details of a new analysis of the transparency of US documents and our latest job vacancy
Focusing on the Fundamentals – Our View on IATI’s Future Strategy
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) has come a long way in its first ten years. As it consults on its future strategy, we have been reflecting on what we think are the priorities for improving aid and development transparency and where IATI could focus its energies for future success.
Avoiding Groundhog Day on US Foreign Assistance
President Trump will soon send Congress his budget for FY 2020. The development community is fully expecting drastic cuts to the proposed foreign aid budget – repeating the FY ‘18 and ’19 scenarios. Over the past 18 months we have conducted detailed research into the impact of proposed cuts. In this blog we reflect on our findings and their significance for the FY 20 budget debate.