‘Capacity for Change: Reforming U.S. Assistance Efforts in Poor and Fragile Countries’ describes the context for reform and examines the key issues for decision by policymakers in an effort to inform a coherent and effective national approach to both stabilization and broader development. It concludes with a set of recommendations and practical next steps, with the points referring to aid transparency below (bolding added).

p.35 – From ‘Aligning Strategy and Capacity – Key Questions’.

Raymond C. Offenheiser, Principal of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) comments on the next U.S. Presidential Study Directive (PSD) and Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) in MFAN’s QDDR blog series.

Today Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, testifies in front of the Senate, and tomorrow in front of the House. Stating the plans for the Foreign Affairs Budget in 2011 (FY11) she will outline how much money will be spent and where it will be allocated. At the request of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, Publish What You Fund has submitted the questions below to be asked of Clinton. If these issues are addressed in the hearing we hope that it will be informative and allow us to anticipate greater aid effectiveness and transparency measures from the U.S.