Reposted from Owen Barder’s blog In this post, I’m going to look at the next steps, particularly focusing on how we can provide meaningful transparency for citizens in developing countries. There is a lot of detail below, so for busy readers here is a summary of the proposed ten steps for aid transparency. 1. Donors […]
Reposted from Owen Barder’s blog. The 8-point summary Here are what I think are the eight most important things I’ve learned in the last three years about transparency in general, and aid transparency in particular: To make a difference, transparency has to be citizen-centred not donor-centred. Citizen-centred transparency would allow citizens of developing countries to […]
Users of the AidData database will soon be able to export details of aid activities in the new international aid reporting standard. The database will still run queries on activities by aid donor, sector, and country as before, but now be exportable in the common standard which was finalized by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) […]
Good news for IATI today as The Hewlett Foundation became the second donor to publish to the IATI standard, releasing data on their global development and international population grantmaking. The Foundation’s move to publish their data to IATI is part of a trend of foundations that have expressed interest and support for IATI. As aidinfo […]
Civil society organisations of the IATI Steering Committee have written to donors congratulating them on developing a common standard for aid information. We look forward to the implementation of IATI in advance of the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in November 2011. ADB IATI Implementation letter March 2011 Australia IATI Implementation […]
On March 1st the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report demonstrating the necessity of interagency coordination, up to date information and federal transparency if taxpayers’ money is to be best spent to best effect. The first annual GAO report was requested by Congress to identify where government programs are overlapping, duplicated or fragmented. The […]
