Guest post by Ruth Salmon, Research Assistant Joining the data collection team for the 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) has been an eye opening experience. The thing that struck me most is how the volume of data available for an organisation does not necessarily correlate with usability. As Publish What You Fund has been saying for […]
Guest post by Laia Grino, Interaction. The Foreign Assistance Dashboard is about to go through a redesign process. Recognizing that it has a diverse audience with many different interests, the Dashboard team plans to consult a wide range of stakeholders, including in-country partners. For this, they deserve credit. The trick, however, will be not to fall prey […]
At the African Development Bank (AfDB) annual meetings this week in Kigali, the bank launched a new online platform to map out its investments across Africa. As we’ve said elsewhere, Publish What You Fund is pleased to see such a strong, on-going commitment to transparency by an influential organisation like the AfDB. It achieved the highest overall score among […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched a new online platform to map out its investments across in Africa, announced at the bank’s annual meeting in Kigali. Developed with AidData, MapAfrica is a geocoding tool that coordinates help identify the banks’ activities in different countries and regions. Their end goal is to enable citizens, governments and donors to view the locations of AfDB’s […]
The IATI Annual Report, which looks at progress made by donors in publishing their aid data to the open data standard for aid information, was published yesterday. The highlight for me is that IATI is gaining momentum, with more than 109 new organisations publishing data in 2013 – almost doubling the total number of publishers by the […]
A few weeks ago we talked about our expectations for the first meeting of the Global Partnership on Development Effectiveness in Mexico on 14-15 April. We wanted to see the Global Partnership demonstrating a genuine political will to be held accountable, address bottlenecks and make improvements in making information about their development cooperation more transparent. Did […]
