Publish What You Fund is launching the 2013 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) on October 24, 2013. The Index is the only global measure of the state of aid transparency in the world’s leading aid organizations. Co-hosted with The Brookings Institution and Oxfam America, the event will include the perspective of a leading Southern voice, […]
Guest post by Jennifer Lentfer, Oxfam America – originally posted here. Three US government agencies released loads of data on their foreign aid programs last month. So what happens when a Parliamentarian or a Minister of a country receiving US development assistance wants to use that information? Yesterday I sat down with the Hon. Albert Kan-Dapaah, a former government […]
Guest post by Laia Grino, InterAction (originally posted here). Last week, it would have been much, much harder to answer questions like, “Who is USAID funding to do work in Kenya? What is that funding for?” Or more generally: “Who is getting funding to do what and where?” With the latest update to the Foreign Assistance Dashboard, finding […]
The Publish What You Fund office is buzzing with excitement over a flurry of new aid information in the last few weeks. Donors seem motivated to meet our July 31st data collection deadline for this year’s Aid Transparency Index. In the U.S. alone, 3 agencies have made important strides to meet their commitments to aid […]
The aid transparency movement has helped stakeholders in donor and partner countries to move from asking ‘why does aid transparency matter and to whom?’ to ‘what are the risks when there is limited aid information and who suffers from it?’. Two recent articles explain the need for transparency, coordination and better information management systems to […]
A bipartisan bill which aims to ensure American tax dollars do a better job of helping fight global poverty was put before Congress yesterday. The Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act 2013 was introduced by Representatives Judge Ted Poe (R-TX) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and its’ companion bill in the Senate was introduced by Senators […]
