This blog is a guest post by Dr. Catherine Weaver, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Co-Director of Innovations for Peace and Development at The University of Texas at Austin. Ten years ago, when the International Aid transparency Initiative and Publish What You Fund were established, detailed information on development aid remained scarce. If you […]
Imagine unwrapping your favourite chocolate bar to find that instead of the delicious chocolate treat you were expecting, you get a bitter mouthful of something horrible. They’ve forgotten the sugar – yikes! This very rarely happens because, like all good products, they get randomly sampled to check the quality is the same throughout. Just as […]
Having high quality, accessible and useful information about what is being spent where, by whom, and with what results is fundamental to making aid more effective. It also makes it more accountable to taxpayers in donor countries and citizens in countries receiving aid. Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index monitors the transparency of donors’ […]
Saudi Arabia “is the number one donor for aid and development in Yemen”, according to Dr Abdullah al-Rabeeah, who runs the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KS Relief). “We’re here to help.” What the impact of Saudi’s aid is, however, we can’t really know. There’s no doubt the country has a sizeable aid […]
We are pleased to announce the donors that will be included in the 2018 Aid Transparency Index and the timeline for data collection. Data collection for the 2018 Index will start on 1st December 2017 and end on 9th March 2018. The final report will be launched in June 2018. The full, updated methodology, […]
If you took part in our recent Aid Transparency Index methodology review, you will know that one of the key issues we grappled with was how to measure the ‘visibility’ of a donor’s data. By visibility, we mean the amount of information a donor publishes to IATI compared to their whole portfolio of work. The […]
