This is the official statement from the Korea Civil Society Forum on International Development Cooperation (KOFID) in reaction to the Government of Korea’s first publication to IATI. It was originally published in Korean on KOFID’s website on 12th August 2016. Korean Government’s Disclosure of ODA Information is Disappointing at Best Far behind to uphold the principles […]
Last week well over 100 participants convened in Seoul for the Annual Workshop of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation organised by the Korean government. The main objectives of the workshop were to take stock of the implementation of the Busan commitments at country level and to reflect on the role of the GPEDC […]
It is almost two months since I started working at Publish What You Fund. The intensity of my induction has been proportionate to the level of expertise the organisation has accumulated since it was founded – and that is significant! My first weeks started with our Aid Transparency Index (ATI) being cited multiple times by U.S. pundits […]
Last week, the South Korean Government in Seoul announced it will join the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) – the first being in charge of grants and the second in charge of loans – will both join IATI by 2015. Rachel Rank, […]
