Ahead of the 7 July International Aid Transparency Initiative Steering Committee meeting in Paris, CSOs from around the world urged development ministers to support an aid transparency standard which ensured more effective foreign assistance. On 28 July CSOs sent follow-up letters encouraging IATI signatories to continue their participation in advance of the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in November 2011.
The 2010 EU AidWatch Report was launched this morning in Brussels. Having ‘tracked the EU’s progress towards achieving its aid quantity and quality commitments’, the report states that most donors are yet to adequately address the important issues of aid transparency, conditionality and accountability.
The Financial Times has launched a series examining "whether Africa is finally turning the corner." In the first installment, the paper published an interesting interactive graph that compares African countries’ foreign aid support as a percentage of government spending, from 1980 to 2008. In 2008, foreign aid to Liberia represented 771% of government spending, up from 652% in 2007, 369% in 2006 and 218% in 2005.
A major Canadian report, ‘A Time to Act: Implementing the ODA Accountability Act, A Canadian CSO Agenda for Aid Reform’ was launched today, 26th May 2010 by The Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CICC).
data.worldbank.org is launched today, containing a huge amount of development data which you can download and manipulate at no cost. The interfaces that have been developed mean that data can be mashed with other information; making useful analyses by individuals and organisations possible.
‘An Eye on Aid’, published today in American Prospect magazine by Justin Charity relays an conversation with Karin Christiansen which gets to the root of why Publish What You Fund exists.
