UPDATE 4 January 2013: The bill has since been blocked in the Senate. See MFAN statement. On December 30th, 2012 the United States House of Representatives passed the H.R. 3159: Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2012. This important piece of legislation will instruct agencies to “[M]ake publicly available comprehensive, timely, comparable, and accessible information […]
On December 20, the U.S. and Canada joined 25 other international donors in releasing their Busan common standard implementation schedules, outlining their plans for publishing aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Registry. The U.S. Implementation Schedule, a key component of the United States government’s commitment to IATI, contains a timetable for publication of individual information items […]
A bill that extensively reforms and modernizes the decades-old U.S. foreign assistance system was introduced by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) yesterday. The Global Partnerships Act of 2012 is the major rewrite of the Foreign Assistance Act originally passed in 1961 during Pres. John F. Kennedy’s term. The GPA seeks to modernize foreign aid efforts by […]
A new study by Transparency International (TI) finds that development assistance from emerging economies is less transparent than traditional donors, particularly when it comes to disclosing where the money goes and giving locals a say. Conducted with researchers from Columbia University and Hertie School of Governance, the study examined how traditional (Germany and the United States) and emerging (Brazil, China and India) providers of development cooperation […]
Last week, all eyes were on America as Barack Obama was re-elected President of the United States. This week, focus is shifting to the Administration’s priorities for the next four years. At Publish What You Fund, we decided to draft our own Aid Transparency Wish List to the U.S. Administration: An ambitious and detailed implementation plan: this […]
The United States has a long way to go in improving policies that support shared global prosperity, according to a Center for Global Development (CGD) index released a week before the US presidential debate on foreign policy. Still the world’s largest economy, with GDP more than twice that of number two China, the United States […]
