Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring News on the 2026 Aid Transparency Index, the transparency of philanthropic foundations, and the importance of defending US foreign assistance data. Plus the release of our new five year strategy, training opportunities in aid data and a roundup of our achievements in 2024.
USAID (United States Agency for International Development) started publishing data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in 2013. You can find information about USAID’s programs using a range of sources, featured on this page.
Publish What You Fund will not be running the Aid Transparency Index in 2026, and all future editions are in doubt unless further funding can be secured. The Index has provided an independent assessment and ranking of the transparency of the world’s largest aid agencies since 2012. It has had a significant impact on the quality and quantity of aid data that is published to the IATI Standard. Without it, there is great risk of an unchecked decline in aid transparency.
Our new report shows a troubling lack of transparency among philanthropic foundations that pledged to increase direct funding to local organisations. Despite commitments made in 2022 through the Donor Statement on Supporting Locally Led Development, the vast majority have failed to report targets or progress.
Our regular roundup of news on aid and development transparency – featuring our new training on using aid data, details of where to find USAID data, our new programme to review the transparency of UK aid, plus the latest news and publications on aid and development statistics, US foreign assistance, climate finance and development finance transparency.
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.
