This blog is a guest post by Dr. Catherine Weaver, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Co-Director of Innovations for Peace and Development at The University of Texas at Austin. Ten years ago, when the International Aid transparency Initiative and Publish What You Fund were established, detailed information on development aid remained scarce. If you […]
This guest blog was written by Alpha Simpson II, Managing Director of Q & A Inc. – a Liberian research firm. Earlier this year the US Administration proposed cutting bilateral assistance to support Liberia’s democracy and governance sector by 66%. I worked with Publish What You Fund to measure the potential impact of these changes, […]
On Thursday, John Adams (IATI TAG chair) asked IATI discuss: What’s the current recommended way to download the entire IATI dataset in XML? Separate files are OK. By Friday, I’d made a Minimum Viable Product: By Monday, it looked a bit more polished: You can view the site here. Wait, what? But… Why? IATI Data […]
In fiscal year 2018, President Trump proposed some significant cuts – around 33% — to the US foreign assistance budget. For the most part, Congress rejected those cuts. The FY ’19 budget was largely a repeat of FY’18, although the final decisions for this fiscal year have not been made. That got us thinking – […]
UPDATE 30/04/18: We are encouraged to see that IATI have committed to publishing their guidance on how to implement aid and budget alignment this week. Information on aid that is aligned with country budget classifications is a key demand of partner countries. This supports more accurate budgeting, accounting and auditing by partner countries, helping better […]
As some of you might know, we’re working on an exciting new project about US foreign assistance. The first thing we’ve been doing is putting the data to work. Using USAID’s Foreign Aid Explorer, we have identified their top 50 countries by spend and visualised it on the map below. Click one or more categories […]
