Opening up aid flows: progress with implementing a common information standard Please join us at the OGP Summit for a discussion on opening up aid flows, with contributions from the Sunlight Foundation, DFID, BudgIT and UNOPS. The Panel Ellen Miller, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation – facilitator David Hall-Matthews, Managing Director, Publish What You Fund […]
WASHINGTON D.C. – Information about aid spending is steadily becoming more available, but it also needs to become more useful, concludes a report released today by Publish What You Fund. The results show there is a leading group of organisations that publish large amounts of useful information on their current aid activities. For the first […]
Every year we produce an Aid Transparency Index in order to assess the state of aid transparency among the world’s major donors. And every year we are faced with the question of which organisations to include. In previous years organisations were selected on the basis of their membership of the OECD DAC or IATI. Additional […]
Here at Publish What You Fund we’ve spent the last four months collecting data for the 2013 Aid Transparency Index. It’s a burdensome task but it’s highlighted to me just how far the aid transparency movement has come since we piloted our Index in 2011. My first role at Publish What You Fund was collecting […]
Earlier this month we started data collection for the 2013 Aid Transparency Index. As the Index is our most important advocacy tool, it needs to evolve and keep up with the changes to the wider transparency and aid effectiveness environment. So, this year we are focusing not only on the availability of aid information, but […]
Read the whole UK Aid Transparency Report Card here. UK aid transparency The UK plays a vital role in championing aid transparency internationally, and was among the donors that established the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in 2008 to provide a global standard for publishing aid information. In 2011, the UK’s active support of aid […]
