As the world reacts to Typhoon Haiyan and relief aid is sent to the Philippines, we hope that it will be provided generously and quickly – but also effectively. It is all too often the case in humanitarian disasters that aid is badly targeted. This results in some efforts being duplicated while other priorities are […]
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 […]
Madrid/Luxembourg, 17 October 2013 — In a case brought by Access Info Europe, the European Court of Justice today rejected arguments by the Council of the European Union that it should be able to keep secret the identities of Member States making proposals in the context of negotiations on future EU legislation. This is the […]
Paris, le 18 septembre – Alors que François Hollande se rend au Mali pour l’investiture du nouveau président, la France a annoncé hier la mise en ligne d’un site internet de traçabilité de l’aide française au Mali. « Cette première en France », selon les mots même du Ministre du développement porteur de cette initiative, est certes une […]
The French Government has just announced that aid transparency is a core priority of its new development policy and it will start publishing its aid data in accordance with an internationally agreed common standard in 2014. The Inter-ministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) met this morning for the first time in four years, under […]
Leading transparency and access to information campaigners including CAFOD, Global Witness, Integrity Action and Publish What You Fund, today welcomed a new UN report as driving progress towards enhanced citizen accountability around the world. The report by the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on Post-2015 Development Agenda calls for a ‘data revolution’, proposes a goal to […]
