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Gender equality funding data is a mess. How do we fix it?

By Alex Farley and Guest | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog

Many organisations have attempted to track funding for gender equality in recent years. We’ve all reached the same conclusion: the data is a mess. If we really want progress on gender equality, We need to move from measuring good intentions to measuring outcomes. We need a new approach. In this blog Alex Farley, Fionna Smyth, Mareen Buschmann, Hellen Malinga Apila propose a multi-stakeholder convening to review, discuss, and resolve the data issues.

What’s missing from the World Bank’s Draft Gender Strategy? Transparency

By Alex Farley and Sally Paxton | Feb 13, 2024 | Blog

As the World Bank prepares to finalise its new gender strategy, we ask how you can identify World Bank projects targeting gender equality, their location, sector, amount of funding and most importantly their impact. In short, you can’t. We set out why this matters for accountability and how the Bank should address the transparency gaps in its gender strategy and implementation plan.

Collaborative UK aid transparency commitment renewed

By Elma Jenkins | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog

The Bond Transparency Working Group has been collaborating with the FCDO to push for more and better transparency in the UK aid budget. They have been successful in updating the UK’s aid transparency commitment. In this blog, Elma Jenkins looks at what this means for the UK’s aid transparency and where more work is still needed.

2023 in review: what just happened?

By Sam Cavenett | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog

2023 has seen some challenging times for the international development community, but also some glimmers of hope. At Publish What You Fund we’ve remained focused on encouraging aid and development agencies to be more transparent about their planning, spending and results. Here we roundup what we’ve been working on over the past year, and the progress that’s been made.

Funding the localization agenda: USAID’s progress

By Gary Forster, Sally Paxton and Guest | Dec 5, 2023 | Blog

Daryl Grisgraber (Oxfam America)joins Gary Forster and Sally Paxton to highlight new Oxfam America research which uses Publish What You Fund’s methodology to track the US Agency for International Development’s localization goal.

The three changes we need to improve understanding of private capital mobilisation

By Paul James | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog

the recent report of the G20 Independent Expert Group (IEG) offers a blueprint for how multilateral development banks (MDBs) can be scaled effectively to increase lending to emerging and developing economies. Paul James looks into the mobilisation of private finance targets in the IEG report, and outlines three changes that are needed if we are to better understand mobilisation and ultimately drive changes that will result in its growth.

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