Read Karin Christiansen’s response to the U.S. MDG Strategy
Karin Christiansen, Director of Publish What You Fund, responds to the U.S. strategy for meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
Obama Administration Starts Delivering on Aid Transparency
Pickles delivers transparency in local government spending
The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has called on councils to provide financial transparency by publishing spending information over £500 online by January 2011. Some councils are already providing details of their expenditure here.
Publish What You Fund and more than 200 other organizations signed open letter to Obama
New U.S. Strategy for meeting the MDGs
Publish What You Fund welcomes the new US strategy for meeting the Millennium Development Goals unveiled on Friday July 30 by Administrator Shah. We strongly commend Dr. Shah on his continued commitment to aid transparency and applaud his continued efforts in “preserving and accelerating the momentum toward the MDGs”.
Summary of the 2010 DCF meeting released
The final Summary of the 2010 New York Development Cooperation Forum (DCF), has been released by the President of ECOSOC, Nihil Seth. Contributions by national governments, parliamentarians and representatives of civil society and local governments at the June meeting produced strategic and action oriented recommendations for achieving the MDGs on the basis of more and better development cooperation.
Ingram praises new foreign aid legislation
George Ingram, Co-Chrairman of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, last week in the Huffington Post praised House Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) for releasing a “thoughtful draft” of new legislation authorizing U.S. foreign assistance. Ingram says it is long overdue, having not been renewed since 1961, but “proposes specific policies and mechanisms to make the entire U.S.