In less than two weeks, heads of states, representatives of civil society organisations, academia, businesses, the UN system and other stakeholders will be gathering at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit. The summit is the culmination of a process that took almost 3 years to complete. It began with a High Level Panel report on […]
The Third Financing for Development Conference has the ambitious mandate of finishing the job agreed in Monterrey and Doha, as well as supporting the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. Publish What You Fund welcomes the Revised Draft Outcome Document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development for recognising the importance of greater transparency and […]
The first drafting session of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) was held in New York on the week of the 26th January, in spite of the agenda being re-scheduled to avoid a potentially dangerous blizzard (that thankfully never happened). We came back to the office with a little bit more understanding […]
The Government of the Netherlands, Publish What You Fund, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) co-organized a lunchtime discussion titled ‘Open data for Development in the Financing for Development Outcome’ hosted by UNDP, around the Financing for Development first drafting session in New York last week. The poor weather in New York led to the initial […]
The UN Secretary General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution plans to launch its final report tomorrow (6 Nov). The UN Secretary General set up IEAG to advise on data revolution for his synthesis report ahead of the intergovernmental negotiations leading to the adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The final report will be […]
We are on the final count down to the 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) results being revealed. I wish our team going to DC the best of luck for a productive discussion around the results on the 8th. With such a distinguished panel they probably won’t need any luck! I’d like to take this opportunity […]
