Repost from Florence Kuteesa, former budget director of Uganda. A global aid transparency movement, bringing together several initiatives with a shared vision[1], has received increasing interest and attention since the 2005 Paris Declaration for Aid Effectiveness. The main thrust of the movement is to make information about aid spending easier to access and understand by […]

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) […]