“A huge weight of analysis that in turn drives a large volume of money for the world’s poorest people rests on a flimsy, uncertain, patchy body of data.” That is the damning conclusion of a new report from Development Initiatives. The boldly titled Investments to End Poverty stands out from the crowd of ever-more-ambitious development programs by starting […]
Paris, le 18 septembre – Alors que François Hollande se rend au Mali pour l’investiture du nouveau président, la France a annoncé hier la mise en ligne d’un site internet de traçabilité de l’aide française au Mali. « Cette première en France », selon les mots même du Ministre du développement porteur de cette initiative, est certes une […]
Responsibility for running the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) recently changed to a new secretariat, after four years of DFID hosting. The department will be a hard act to follow as the UK Government has been a global leader on aid transparency, both in terms of releasing its own information but also its generous financial and administrative […]
Mark Brough will be presenting at the Open Knowledge Conference on Monday 16 September. This blog is in advance of the event and cross-posted here. Aid, climate finance, extractives, government budgets, humanitarian aid, contracts and organisation identifiers: there are now a large range of initiatives to open up data on developmental resource flows. On 16th September at OKCon, we […]
The Directorate General for Enlargement and the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) this week became the joint second European Commission departments to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. They join DG Development-EuropeAid (DEVCO) which has been publishing its aid information to IATI since 2011. EU collective publication to IATI now represents over 87% of EU ODA. DG Enlargement […]
Guest post by Jennifer Lentfer, Oxfam America – originally posted here. Three US government agencies released loads of data on their foreign aid programs last month. So what happens when a Parliamentarian or a Minister of a country receiving US development assistance wants to use that information? Yesterday I sat down with the Hon. Albert Kan-Dapaah, a former government […]
