Publish What You Fund is the global campaign for aid and development transparency.

We envisage a world where aid and development information is transparent, available and used for effective and inclusive decision-making, public accountability and lasting change for all citizens.

We believe full and fair access to global aid and development data empowers local actors, increases the accountability and effectiveness of aid agencies and creates a more just and equitable world. We use aid and development data to share understanding of spending and impact, to address global challenges and drive greater transparency. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis, often using vast open aid datasets, we identify and encourage improvements in policy and practice.

Our 2025–2030 strategy is built on three core principles: making aid transparency bigger, better, and louder.

1. Bigger: We are expanding our scope of transparency beyond traditional aid flows to include development finance, climate finance, and gender-related investments. By broadening the range of data available, we ensure that transparency keeps pace with the evolving nature of development finance.
2. Better: High-quality data is essential for accountability. We will continue to push for improvements in the timeliness, accuracy, and usability of aid and development finance data. Our tools, including the DFI Transparency Index, will drive better disclosure standards and more meaningful insights.
3. Louder: Transparency only has impact when it is used. Over the next five years, we will focus on making data more accessible and engaging with a wider audience—including civil society, journalists, and policymakers—to amplify the use of aid transparency in decision-making and advocacy efforts.

We are an independent NGO and have been central to the aid and development finance transparency movement since 2008. Our head office is in London and we maintain representation in Washington DC, where our work is supported by Friends of Publish What You Fund.

The team at Publish What You Fund takes great pride in collaborating with academics, researchers, and journalists, and in having our work and findings featured in prominent articles and papers. Our research has been highlighted in leading outlets such as the Financial Times, The Guardian, Reuters, and Devex. We are honoured to be acknowledged and referenced in parliamentary and congressional inquiries, as well as in policy documents produced by the G20, OECD, and our many partners, including the Center for Global Development, ODI Global, and Oxfam.

We value our collaborative relationships with advocacy targets, including donor agencies, Development Finance Institutions, UN agencies, and philanthropic foundations. It is particularly gratifying to see our recommendations consistently reflected in their strategy and policy documents, as well as in public statements and press releases.

You can read a short summary of our impact and achievements in 2024 here.

Publish What You Fund’s annual assessment is a very powerful driver for improving reporting on aid transparency…you [Publish What You Fund] really motivated us to work very hard…

we’ve seen [the Index] as a huge incentive to work to excel.

- Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP, 2016 Index launch