News Roundup – Publishing high quality data, research manager vacancy and reports review
A round up of our latest news, including a new briefing paper on publishing high quality data, and an overview of Publish What You Fund, our work and our goals.
News Roundup – Reflecting on the last 10 years, looking ahead with a new strategy and developments in the US and China
A round up of our latest blogs and publications, including reflections on the last ten years of aid transparency and our future strategy.
A Future Strategy for Aid Transparency
By Giles Bolton, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Publish What You Fund, and Gary Forster, Chief Executive Officer, Publish What You Fund “We have found a lack of information from the government in their response. The databases we are looking at don’t match. International donors don’t always have transparency and accountability built into […]
How to Consolidate the Two US Foreign Assistance Dashboards
This post was written by Sally Paxton, the US Representative for Publish What You Fund, and George Ingram, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally published on the Brooking Institution’s website. For the last several years, US foreign assistance data has been published […]
Ten Years of Aid Transparency – Fulfilling the Dream of Accra
By Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center for Global Development, Director for Europe and a senior fellow, and Gary Forster, Chief Executive Officer, Publish What You Fund Aid and development transparency has come a long way in ten years. In this, the first of a two-part blog series, we look back at the […]
Chinese Aid – Competition or Colonialism?
China has repeatedly come under fire for its aid and development practices. “Negative impact”, “roll[ing] back transparency” and “unsustainable debt” are some of the terms used to describe Chinese foreign assistance by Jim Richardson, coordinator of USAID’s Transformation Task Team. He is not alone in his criticism. Ray Washbourne, President and CEO of OPIC, suggested […]