This is a guest blog by Sheila Herrling, Vice President of Policy and Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The original blog can be found here. On April 29th at the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) unveiled a new evaluation data catalog to house all the […]
[Guest blog By Sam Worthington, president and CEO of InterAction. Also posted here.] Today, transparency is thought to be as essential for effective development as gender equality or local ownership. Without transparency, real accountability is impossible. Without accountability, it is difficult to achieve meaningful, lasting results. At least rhetorically, both donors and civil societyhave recognized this, identifying transparency as a […]
[Guest post by Tessie San Martin – Plan International USA CEO. Also posted here] Over 40 governments, along with UN organizations and the World Bank, have committed to a common standard and time schedule for publishing aid information under the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). There are high expectations for this initiative. The ultimate objective is to increase the […]
[Guest post by Dima Shocair Reda, Adaptation Fund – bio at end] The Adaptation Fund Board officially signed on to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) today. The Fund’s mandate to provide funding to the most vulnerable people in the world to combat the devastating effects of increased droughts, rising sea levels, and other natural disasters […]
Guest post by Rodney Bent (see bio at end), originally posted on Sunlight Foundation blog. Over the past 18 years, the American public told pollsters they believe the U.S. government spends way too much on foreign aid, reckoning that something like a fifth or a quarter of the federal budget is used for that purpose. […]
Guest post by Claudia Schwegmann, founder of the OpenAid project and board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. Germany has published its first set of aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this to happen. It is particularly good news as Germany was […]
