Guest post by Nathaniel Heller, Global Integrity Every year, Publish What You Fund produces an index to rank donors according to how transparent they are about the aid they give. The Index has become the industry standard, assessing the state of aid transparency among the world’s major donors, while encouraging progress and holding them to […]
New Zealand, an original signature to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), has started to publish new aid data to the common standard. New Zealand originally published in XML for the first time in May 2012, but have been working to improve their data since. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) have now published new […]
Here at Publish What You Fund we’ve spent the last four months collecting data for the 2013 Aid Transparency Index. It’s a burdensome task but it’s highlighted to me just how far the aid transparency movement has come since we piloted our Index in 2011. My first role at Publish What You Fund was collecting […]
Guest post by Donald Kaberuka, President of African Development Bank Group In unsteady economic times, it was significant to see that transparency remained a crucial topic of discussion at the G8 in Lough Erne. Even more significant was that all the countries at the table walked away with a firm commitment to increasing transparency, in everything from […]
The aid transparency movement has helped stakeholders in donor and partner countries to move from asking ‘why does aid transparency matter and to whom?’ to ‘what are the risks when there is limited aid information and who suffers from it?’. Two recent articles explain the need for transparency, coordination and better information management systems to […]
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has published its first set of data to the internationally agreed common standard. The FCO is the third UK Government department to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), a cutting-edge global standard for aid publication. It joins the Department for International Development (DFID), which leads the pack […]
