Next week, the world’s development actors will meet at the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico. The meeting is an opportunity to kick-start efforts to ensure governments’ transparency commitments on development cooperation are met by 2015. Along with more than 50 other organisations, networks and individuals, we have written advocacy […]
It is almost two months since I started working at Publish What You Fund. The intensity of my induction has been proportionate to the level of expertise the organisation has accumulated since it was founded – and that is significant! My first weeks started with our Aid Transparency Index (ATI) being cited multiple times by U.S. pundits […]
Guest post by Martin Akerman, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) In line with our commitment under the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) plans to release quarterly updates to its implementation schedule and is on track to be compliant with the standards set by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), […]
Last week, the South Korean Government in Seoul announced it will join the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) – the first being in charge of grants and the second in charge of loans – will both join IATI by 2015. Rachel Rank, […]
Guest post by Amy Bennett at OpenTheGovernment.org, to mark the beginning of Sunshine Week in Washington, D.C. For years US civil society organizations like mine and many of our coalition partners have been calling attention to the delays, mind-boggling technical barriers, and bureaucratic resistance to openness that contribute to making the US Freedom of Information Act […]
Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies held an event to discuss aid effectiveness, transparency, and accountability in the U.S. Congressman Ted Poe, one of the key authors of the 2013 Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act, opened the event by highlighting the importance of the Aid Transparency Index as the only measure of donor transparency. A panel […]
