Today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the First Global Assembly for Budget Transparency, Accountability, and Participation CSO’s from recipient counties will join forces with international organisations including Greenpeace, the ONE Campaign, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) to call for more open and accountable government budgeting. This assembly, held in the final days before […]
A coalition of over fifty civil society groups from twenty countries around the world today launched a campaign Make Aid Transparent, which calls on governments and other aid donors to publish more and better information about the money they give. At the centre of the campaign, whose members include ActionAid, Publish What You Fund, Transparency […]
Last week was the OECD’s 50th anniversary and Brian Atwood, Chair of the DAC-OECD and former head of USAID, has discussed aid transparency in an interview with ONE. He points to how the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action have made greater aid transparency a central principle. Referring to the […]
Publish What You Fund participated in a workshop in December 2010 on ‘The Evolving Global Aid Architecture’ which concluded that “aid transparency is a pre-requisite to unlocking the potential and impact of both aid and domestic revenues and systems in developing countries.” P.11 “The Evolving Global Aid Architecture: Chair‘s Summary of the Seoul Workshop” The […]
On 9th December Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Assessment was presented at Brookings in Washington, D.C. We were joined by Ruth Levine of USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning, Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, Liberian finance minister, and Daniel Kaufmann, Brookings senior fellow for a panel […]
Publish What You Fund will be launching the first global Aid Transparency Assessment in Washington, DC in December. December 8th at the World Bank 14:00 – 16:00 pm, MC2-800, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC. With: Karin Christiansen, Publish What You Fund, and Senior Bank staff – speakers to be confirmed. December 9th at Brookings […]
