Meeting the information needs of partner countries
Seven organisations have written to the Chair of the OECD DAC, Erik Solheim, asking him to support a proposal to ensure aid can be mapped onto partner country budgets.
World Statistics Day: A statement on humanitarian aid transparency
Today is world statistics day and Publish What You Fund is renewing its call for aid transparency. Specifically we are asking for all humanitarian aid to be published to the International Aid Transparency (IATI) by the end of 2016. Our CEO, Rupert Simons, talks about this ambition in his statement at the World Humanitarian Summit Global Consultations in […]
Road to 2015: The Home Straight
The 31st of December 2015 marks the deadline that donors set themselves to make their aid fully transparent. The Road to 2015 campaign was launched over a year ago to push donors to meet their commitment and we are now entering the home straight. But we are not taking our foot off the pedal. To coincide with the […]
3 months to go!
All donor agencies have three months left to uphold their Busan commitment to make aid transparent by the end of December 2015. We believe this is an important period and a crucial year to show evidence that this 2011 promise was not only rhetoric but can actually lead to significant progress and make development more […]
We’re joining the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. With a commitment, and with one condition.
Publish What You Fund is pleased to announce that it is joining the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data which is launching in New York today, International Right to Know Day. Publish What You Fund has campaigned for aid transparency since we were founded in 2009. We advocate for more and better data to track […]
A Sad State of Affairs: is transparency a solution?
This is a guest post by Rodney Bent, Independent Consultant With much hoopla in December 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, aka the QDDR. This substantial document, 90 pages worth, was intended to replicate for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development what […]