On March 1st the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report demonstrating the necessity of interagency coordination, up to date information and federal transparency if taxpayers’ money is to be best spent to best effect. The first annual GAO report was requested by Congress to identify where government programs are overlapping, duplicated or fragmented. The […]
Update (4th April): We’ve received replies to eight letters already. Read the replies here. On 9th February, a meeting of the International Aid Transparency Initiative Steering Committee in Paris will agree the final details of the global standard for publishing aid information. In advance of this meeting, 35 civil society organisations from around the world […]
Richard Manning, chair of IDS, former chair of the OECD DAC, and peer reviewer of our Aid Transparency Assessment, urges donors to “step up action on the transparency of their own aid delivery” in a contribution to the German Marshall Fund blog in December 2010. Manning advocates increased transparency, accountability and response to local performance […]
On 9th December Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Assessment was presented at Brookings in Washington, D.C. We were joined by Ruth Levine of USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning, Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, Liberian finance minister, and Daniel Kaufmann, Brookings senior fellow for a panel […]
On 8th December, Publish What You Fund presented the findings of our Aid Transparency Assessment at the World Bank in Washington, DC, and at the Brookings Institution on 9th December. The World Bank panel discussion featured William Towah (Unit Director of the Aid Management Unit, Ministry of Finance, Liberia), Joachim von Amsberg (Vice President for […]
Today in DC, the US government launched the new Foreign Assistance Dashboard. This new website, and particularly the data behind it, is an important first step to increase the timeliness, comparability and comprehensiveness of information on American foreign assistance. After a series of consultations with agencies, NGOs and the development community, the team at ‘F’ […]
