News Roundup – How Do We Measure Aid Transparency?
Our regular roundup of news from the aid and development transparency world, including our updated methodology for the Aid Transparency Index and news from Nigeria.
New positions available at Publish What You Fund
Research Assistant £27,000, full time, London Are you keen to use your research experience to investigate international development finance? Do you want to use your communication and analytical skills to advocate for more effective use of aid and development assistance? Publish What You Fund is the global campaign for aid and development transparency. We are […]
What’s Under the Bonnet … Getting into our Index Methodology
How do we measure aid transparency? Find out more about the updated methodology that we’ll be using for the 2020 Aid Transparency Index.
News Roundup – Transparency and the DFC and Bangladesh Reflections
Our regular round up of the latest happenings in the aid and development transparency world. This edition features our blogs on the new US DFI and reflections on our recent research trip to Bangladesh.
Notes from the Field: Bangladesh
Gary Forster and Henry Lewis are just back from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. They have been finishing the research stage of our humanitarian transparency project –trying to understand the data needs and challenges of humanitarian actors on the ground, and how they might be addressed. In a new blog with our partners Ruba Ishak and Max Seilern from Ground Truth Solutions, they reflect on their experience in Bangladesh and the insights shared by interviewees who are dealing with one of the biggest refugee crises in the world.
How the New Development Finance Corporation Can Get off to a Solid Start
Scheduled to open its doors this fall, the new US Development Finance Corporation has some ambitious and welcome goals. George Ingram and Sally Paxton consider the key issues for the new institution to address if it is to set the gold standard for a modern and transparent DFI.