As Communications Manager here at Publish What You Fund, I often get calls from journalists, researchers, academics, and NGOs looking for information about a particular donor’s aid spending. It is the nature of the job – and a testament to the fact that we are the leading organisation in the field of aid transparency – […]
Guest blog by Heather Hanson, Senior Policy Advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation If you walked into the recent International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting in Montreal, you might be surprised by the crowd. Participation wasn’t limited to government representatives in suits from around the world (like me!). The TAG was a real […]
Its mid-January – past the time to make (and break!) any new year’s resolutions, but still time to reflect on last year and assess the year ahead. One thing is crystal clear: 2014 is a critical year for the U.S. if it is to meet its commitments on aid transparency. In 2013, the Millennium Challenge […]
Four years after the earthquake in Haiti, it is still hard to trace where the money has gone. Data released by the USAid last year shows it spent more than $270m on projects in Haiti in 2013, with US-based companies receiving almost half of this and American non-profits a further 37%. But the data that […]
Guest post by Jennifer Jentfer, Oxfam America – originally published here. “A lack of transparency creates one of the most dangerous mentalities among humans, like racism or regionalism,” says Faten Belguith, an IREX Community Solutions Program Fellow and co-founder of the Tunisian Network of Associations for Citizenship and Development (La Toile des Associations pour le Civisme et le […]
Earlier this month, the U.S. released a new plan detailing the commitments and priorities for the next two years under the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The updated National Action Plan is not only more ambitious than we anticipated; it also shows a significant improvement from an earlier draft version released at the OGP summit in […]
