The Aid Transparency Index
The results of the 2022 Aid Transparency Index are now available here.
Launched in July 2022, the Index highlights:
- The African Development Bank’s sovereign portfolio tops the Index, one of ten organisations scoring “very good”, including the World Bank, US Millennium Challenge Corporation, UNICEF and Gavi – the Vaccine Alliance.
- Ten years of effort have produced a global data set that can be used for a range of important purposes.
- The majority of the agencies in the Index now publish good quality aid data. 31 organisations, the highest number to date, now score “very good” or “good”.
- This 10th anniversary report contains a stark warning about the deterioration in quality of data between editions of the Aid Transparency Index.
The Aid Transparency Index is the only independent measure of aid transparency among the world’s major development agencies. It is the flagship publication of Publish What You Fund.
The Index tracks and measures donors’ progress towards transparency. This public comparative ranking of donor agencies, based on a robust methodology, enables us to identify changes needed and galvanise major donors to progressively increase and improve the aid and development information they make available.
Since the first full Index in 2012, it has raised the profile of aid transparency and enabled us to effectively influence some of the largest aid donors in the world’.
We have also released a range of online transparency tools, to assist donors with the publication of aid and development information.
“Aid transparency based on sharing accurate, timely, comprehensive and comparable data is really important. It should be a non-negotiable commitment. There’s no scope or luxury for us to work in isolation. If we’d like to bring more connectivity, there’s no alternative but publishing the data in the humanitarian and development field."
- Shahana Hayat, Christian Aid, Bangladesh 2020