The majority of international aid donors are not publishing enough information about the money they give, undermining the effectiveness of development spending and damaging public trust, according to a new report released today by Publish What You Fund. The report comes just 2 weeks before a key international meeting on aid effectiveness in Busan, Korea. […]
The OECD has been hosting a meeting of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness in Paris this week – the last before the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan from Nov 29-Dec 1. The discussions have been critical for determining the success or otherwise of the Busan meeting and passages of text for the final […]
In a review of the new Japanese government’s policies in Burma, Human Rights Watch has called for increased humanitarian aid from the country ‘to meet the acute needs of the Burmese people’.
Significantly, they have requested that ‘donors should stress the importance of transparency and accountability in the delivery of humanitarian aid, including taking approaches that strengthen civil society rather than the existing corrupt power structures, and that respond to the views and needs of ordinary people’.
