We welcome the leadership shown by the EIB on opening up its development activities by committing to implement IATI in its new disclosure policy. We are disappointed, however, that the policy does not go further by including exceptions on internal documents and investigations. We hope that the EIB will review this decision and work closely […]
Publish What You Fund has been nominated for an Honesty Oscar! We will feature in the Best Special Effect Tech Tool category, for our 2014 ATI report / interactive graphics. Set up by ONE Foundation and Accountability Lab last year, voters will select winners across 5 categories. Contenders for each category will be announced daily from Tuesday […]
A group of international CSOs, including Publish What You Fund, have submitted a letter to Directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) expressing concerns that the Bank’s draft transparency policy is a backwards step and not in keeping with other international financial institutions and official actors, who are improving their transparency and accountability policies. The […]
The UK Open Government Network is a group of organisations and individuals committed to making government work better for people. We call on all political parties to put the principles of open government at the heart of their plans for government. Open government is the simple but powerful idea that governments and institutions work better for […]
Civil society, convened by OpentheGovernment.org, have released the second of 3 progress reports on the U.S. Government’s 2014-2015 National Action Plan (NAP) as part of the international Open Government Partnership (OGP). The report, which is at the mid-point of the current NAP, finds “commitments that are being implemented with active engagement of civil society seem […]
We are delighted to introduce our new CEO, Rupert Simons, who will be with us from mid-January. Rupert joins us from the Africa Governance Initiative where he led projects in Liberia and Ethiopia. He brings a wealth of experience from the public, private and third sectors. “I am thrilled to be joining Publish What You […]
