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 […]
Guest post by Martin Tisné, Director, Policy at Omidyar Network and Publish What You Fund board member. I am very fortunate to have been involved with Publish What You Fund since its launch alongside the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in 2008, at the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. That was five years ago. Publish […]
How we’re monitoring the quality of aid information published in IATI and other formats.
Guest blog by George Ingram, David Beckmann and Jim Kolbe, originally posted here. Something peculiar has happened around President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa: a famously dysfunctional Congress actually sent a constructive, bipartisan message to the president about the future of engagement with the continent and other developing countries. Two weeks ago, a group […]
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has become the first multilateral development bank to publish private sector and geocoded aid data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The AfDB became the 19th signatory to IATI in April 2011. IATI is a voluntary initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid in order to increase its effectiveness […]
Over the past few months Publish What You Fund along with some of its partners have been working on a series of blogs to explore Aid Transparency from different perspectives and for different uses. The series of blogs kicked off in March with a blog from Paul O’Brien from Oxfam America and concluded in May […]
