The AidWatch 2012 Report and ONE Data Report were launched together today in London, detailing concerns about the quantity and quality of aid being spent by the European Union. Commenting on the reports, Publish What You Fund’s David Hall-Matthews said: “It is disappointing that both of these reports found European aid levels have reached a historic […]
Participants at a follow-up meeting to the Busan conference on aid effectiveness have agreed a set of indicators that will provide the basis for a global monitoring framework for development assistance. The Guardian reports that agreement on the 10 indicators put forward by the UK and Rwanda followed two days of talks at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation […]
Publish What You Fund welcomes the United Nations Office for Project Services’ (UNOPS) decision to publish fully geocoded information about its activities in the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) format. By releasing this information, in a comparable format, over 1,000 projects will be available to all stakeholders looking for geographical and technical information about UNOPS’ […]
Brian Atwood, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), has confirmed the organisation’s strong commitment to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). At a speech last night in London, Atwood impressed the crowd by saying the DAC is behind the aid transparency movement. He asserted that as much as 30% of aid is lost on transaction costs, […]
A group of influential Americans are joining the call for aid transparency in the U.S., as part of a new advisory committee on the government’s implementation of global initiatives. The committee will provide strategic advice to Publish What You Fund, the campaign for aid transparency, on its efforts to advocate for the U.S. government to […]
