The Road to 2015 Campaign: Open Data for Sustainable Development was launched today by Publish What You Fund at the UN Development Cooperation Forum in NYC. What is it about? The Road to 2015 campaign is about harnessing the power of open data for sustainable development. What do we want? We want donors who have committed to publishing aid […]
Guest post by Paola Palacios and Sandra Patargo, Transparencia Mexicana The first meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation starts today in Mexico. This meeting can and should be a window of opportunity for the governments and organisations to commit and comply with specific mechanisms to make all aid flows more transparent and accountable. […]
Guest post by Martin Akerman, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) In line with our commitment under the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) plans to release quarterly updates to its implementation schedule and is on track to be compliant with the standards set by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), […]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is now presenting information about aid contributions in a format that is compatible with industry standards. OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS) has been publishing data on international humanitarian aid reported by donors and recipient organisations for the past 20 years. By working with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), and […]
Guest blog by Claire Schouten, Integrity Action Last week saw the third meeting of the UN high-level panel (HLP), which has until May to come up with a vision to shape the post-2015 development agenda. The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015, and many of those goals have not been met as we near the […]
