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 […]
The United States has a long way to go in improving policies that support shared global prosperity, according to a Center for Global Development (CGD) index released a week before the US presidential debate on foreign policy. Still the world’s largest economy, with GDP more than twice that of number two China, the United States […]
Coverage online Huffington Post: George Ingram – Aid Transparency: Will Obama and Romney Walk the Walk? Devex: Some progress but aid still not transparent Wall Street Journal: Study Says Development Aid Remains Opaque Despite Progress Guardian: World aid data: every country ranked for transparency Reuters: EU states lagging in aid transparency – watchdog Also carried […]
