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Can You Measure What You Can’t See?

By Gary Forster | Jan 9, 2019 | Blog

Next week is Private Finance for Sustainable Development Week – an annual OECD event that brings together the public and private sector to discuss new approaches in using private finance to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Naturally the role of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) will be included in these discussions by virtue of the financial muscle they bring to the table. And as part of our ongoing work on DFI Transparency we’ll be there.
In this blog we question the value of increasing the focus on impact measurement if development objectives, results and lessons learned are not transparent.

A Year in Blogs – Publish What You Fund in 2018

By Sam Cavenett | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog

It’s been a busy year at Publish What You Fund. As is traditional at this time of year, we’ve been reflecting on what we’ve achieved and what we need to do next. Here’s our quick roundup of what the team has been up to – from the influential Aid Transparency Index, and on the ground research into aid flows in Liberia and Cambodia, to developing new tools to increase access to aid and development data.

Setting the Gold Standard for Transparency – The Opportunity for the New US Development Finance Agency

By Sally Paxton and George Ingram | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog

The new US Development Finance Corporation provides a rare opportunity to set up an agency from the beginning. We can learn from other development finance institutions (DFIs) as to what worked and what did not. This is an opportunity to reach higher, to innovate more, and to truly set a gold standard for transparency.

Aid and Development Finance Data – From Useful to Useable

By Gary Forster | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog

The aid transparency community has a decision to make. All at once we need to raise awareness of the presence of huge volumes of aid and development finance information, and at the same time support new and existing users when they have challenges accessing it. In short, as more people look to IATI as a […]

Our Three TAG Takeaways

By Gary Forster | Nov 21, 2018 | Blog

Last week more than 150 aid transparency professionals met in Kathmandu at the IATI Technical Advisory Group meeting. Traditionally this meeting was a space for discussing the more technical aspects of the underlying infrastructure that supports the global aid transparency movement including the IATI Standard and the visualisation tools and mechanisms which support it. Today […]

IATI Decipher – Unlocking 22,300 Strategic Documents and $2.6 Trillion of Aid and Development Budgets

By Gary Forster | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, News

Today we’re launching a new tool that uncovers huge swathes of previously incomprehensible aid and development information. IATI Decipher, for the first time, visualises strategic and budget documents in the IATI Registry. This valuable data – encompassing over 22,300 strategic documents and $2.6 trillion of global donor budgets – was only previously accessible to those […]

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