LONDON – Global development flows are on a slow path to transparency, but most aid information is still not published. Publish What You Fund’s 2012 Aid Transparency Index, released today, finds donor transparency is on the rise but continues to fall short of best practice. This is particularly disappointing at a time when transparency is […]
Publish What You Fund congratulates the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for passing the Foreign Assistance Transparency and Accountability Act of 2012 (S. 3310) yesterday. This is a welcome bipartisan step to institutionalize progress made on aid transparency by the United States particularly around the Foreign Assistance Dashboard. The Foreign Assistance Dashboard has […]
The Inter-American Development Bank, the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, released a detailed plan of how it intends to meet the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard for aid publication. As part of their Busan commitment to transparency and accountability, IDB will make public activity level info on a quarterly […]
Publish What You Fund today welcomed the news that a common, open standard for publishing aid information has now been agreed by the OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness. The final meeting of the group, which includes donors, recipients and civil society, aimed to ensure that the international commitments made last year at Busan were […]
The UK Government announced it will release new data about public services – including where British aid money is spent – on the official data website data.gov.uk. Commenting on the Department for International Development (DfID) aid data, Publish What You Fund’s David Hall-Matthews, said: “DfID continues to take a lead on aid transparency – not only in […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has for the first time published foreign assistance obligation and expenditure data on its Foreign Assistance Dashboard. The Dashboard serves as a tool for users to understand the impact of U.S. foreign assistance funding by country, sector, initiative, and agency. The site has become the U.S. Government’s main tool […]
