Guest blog by Ben Leo, ONE’s global policy director, and Lauren Pfeifer, ONE’s policy associate on the Transparency and Accountability Team. Original posted here. On President Obama’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that called for open, transparent government. The order is based on the principles that openness should be the default […]
Guest post by Paul O’Brien,Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America and member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee. Originally posted here. Will Raj Shah commit USAID to joining the top 10% most transparent donors by the time he leaves his USAID Administrator post? He might do so, but looking at his […]
[Guest post by Alan Hudson, ONE Director (Transparency & Accountability) – originally posted Feb 25th, 2013 on the ONE blog] As David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos made clear, plans for the G8 Summit are taking shape. In addition to tackling the threat of extremism and terrorist violence, and addressing issues around agriculture, food […]
Guest blog by Claire Schouten, Integrity Action Last week saw the third meeting of the UN high-level panel (HLP), which has until May to come up with a vision to shape the post-2015 development agenda. The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015, and many of those goals have not been met as we near the […]
Guest post by Paolo de Renzio, Senior Research Fellow, Open Budget Initiative If you want to fight poverty, you need to care about budgets. They are the government’s most powerful tool to meet the needs and priorities of a country and its people. Public budgets are the blueprints for how the government will raise and spend the […]
Guest post by Nilmini Rubin, member of Publish What You Fund U.S. Advisory Committee (see bio at end). A popular newsletter, The Nelson Report, recently called former Senator Richard Lugar a “national treasure”. In my view, that is an apt description. During his 36 years in the Senate, Senator Lugar left his imprint on a […]
