Last week, I attended the launch of Publish What You Fund’s 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) at the Center for Global Development here in Washington, DC. During the event, one thing became clear to me: aid agencies around the world are hearing the drumbeat of the global aid transparency movement—and they’re beginning to respond. While a […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance [View the story “The “ugly” of Aid Transparency? Information Systems” on Storify]
Guest post by Karl Peterson, Sida Last week, Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) launched a new version of the Swedish aid tracker Openaid.se – showing Sweden’s aid to the world from 1998 to present date. Here is the inside story. Sida has been publishing IATI data since 2011, but this is the first […]
Data collection for the 2014 ATI ended on June 30th. As a newbie to the ATI process, it sounded like perfect timing. Summer was just beginning, and there was plenty of time for the team to put their feet up and enjoy some sun before the Index launch in October, right? Wrong. If anything, we […]
Guest post by Alessandra Flora, EurActiv – originally posted here. Ora che anche la Francia e il Giappone vi hanno aderito, l’Italia e la Russia restano gli unici membri del G8 a non partecipare al registro sugli aiuti internazionali, comunemente noto come IATI (acronimo di International Aid Transparency Initiative). In altre parole, ad oggi, le informazioni […]
Data collection continues for the 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI). And for the first time, we are sampling documents and data on the results, conditions and sub-national location published to the IATI Registry in XML format. Sampling essentially means manually checking that the information provided is specific to that activity, has been appropriately tagged using IATI […]
