Guest post by Laia Grino, InterAction (originally posted here). Last week, it would have been much, much harder to answer questions like, “Who is USAID funding to do work in Kenya? What is that funding for?” Or more generally: “Who is getting funding to do what and where?” With the latest update to the Foreign Assistance Dashboard, finding […]
Guest post by Donald Kaberuka, President of African Development Bank Group In unsteady economic times, it was significant to see that transparency remained a crucial topic of discussion at the G8 in Lough Erne. Even more significant was that all the countries at the table walked away with a firm commitment to increasing transparency, in everything from […]
Guest post by Lydia Medland, Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) Coordinator. Over the last 10 years the right of access to information, or “freedom of information”, has spread exponentially. Laws have been passed in over 40 countries recognising that citizens have a right of access to information, international courts have ruled that citizens […]
Guest post by Martin Tisné, Director, Policy at Omidyar Network and Publish What You Fund board member. I am very fortunate to have been involved with Publish What You Fund since its launch alongside the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in 2008, at the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. That was five years ago. Publish […]
Guest blog by George Ingram, David Beckmann and Jim Kolbe, originally posted here. Something peculiar has happened around President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa: a famously dysfunctional Congress actually sent a constructive, bipartisan message to the president about the future of engagement with the continent and other developing countries. Two weeks ago, a group […]
Guest post by ONE’s Alan Hudson, originally posted here In less than two weeks, on 17th and 18th June in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, world leaders will converge for the G8 Summit. The UK government has shown great leadership in setting a ground-breaking agenda on trade, tax and transparency, but the focus now needs to be on […]
