Having high quality, accessible and useful information about what is being spent where, by whom, and with what results is fundamental to making aid more effective. It also makes it more accountable to taxpayers in donor countries and citizens in countries receiving aid. Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index monitors the transparency of donors’ […]
This blog post is written by Tom Orrell and Bill Anderson. About two-and-a-half years ago, Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund launched the Joined-Up Data Standards (JUDS) project, funded by the Omidyar Network. Our aim was to foster international collaboration to make commonly used international data standards interoperable to help drive poverty eradication and […]
The latest report from the Joined-Up Data Standards [JUDS] project explores where progress has been made, what challenges still remain, and how the new Collaborative on SDG Data Interoperability will play a critical role in moving forward the agenda for interoperability policy. There is an ever-growing need for a more holistic picture of development processes […]
We have recently launched a new project which will combine open aid data with in-country research to assess the impact of potential changes to the US foreign assistance budget. Our first step has been to look into a range of sources of US foreign assistance data.
Publish What You Fund gives a cautious welcome to agreement on foreign aid reform, but urges greater transparency so that aid can make a bigger difference The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) met this week in Paris to consider reforms to how foreign aid is defined and measured. The Chair of the DAC, Charlotte Petri-Gornitzka, […]
Publish What You Fund is excited to announce a new project that will interrogate open aid data – including that published to IATI – in order to assess the impact of potential changes to US foreign assistance. The project will combine a deep-dive into the data and research in partner countries. The findings will be […]
