Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring our latest report which compares leading donor pledges on local funding with evidence of increases in resources to local organisations, a chance to catch up on our discussion with leading experts on private capital mobilisation, plus a bumper round up of news and reports from around the sector.
Many bilateral donors have signed up to international agreements to take a more locally led approach and transfer a greater share of resources to local partners. But our new study finds that many of the same donors are not sharing any practical evidence of increased local funding. Commitments Without Accountability highlights that four out of five donors do not have localisation strategies or clear definitions, targets, or methods for measuring progress in funding shifts.
our new report and event on how to improve the measurement and disclosure of private capital mobilisation, and why this is an urgent issue for development finance institutions and multilateral development banks.
Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring the 2024 Aid Transparency Index launch and results, plus news on the timeline and introduction of climate finance indicators to the 2025 DFI Transparency Index.
Work on the second DFI Transparency Index is underway, in preparation for launch in July 2025. The Index ranks the transparency of the world’s leading development finance institutions (DFIs) and encourages improvement. We recently completed a methodology review, involving stakeholder consultation, to improve the rigour of the DFI Transparency Index, while maintaining comparability between the 2023 and 2025 editions. Here we set out the changes that have been made to the methodology, including the addition of new climate finance indicators.
We’re excited to announce that the launch of the 2024 Aid Transparency Index will take place on Tuesday 16 July at 9.30 EDT / 2.30 BST. The event will be hosted by Brookings Center for Sustainable Development in Washington DC and online.
