IATI, Publish What You Fund, Open Contracting Partnership, Transparency International, the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), and UNDP are holding a side event at the Financing for Development conference. Please find details below and view the full invite with map here. The Role of Data Standards and International Initiatives in Mobilizing and Monitoring Financing […]
Washington, DC – Lack of aid transparency by main U.S. government agencies is hindering development outcomes in some of the poorest countries in the world, says Publish What You Fund’s latest report. The U.S. is the world’s largest single provider of foreign assistance, giving $27bn of critical development assistance in 2013 alone. Yet four out […]
This is a guest post from Sheila Herrling, Senior Vice President for Social Innovation at the Case Foundation and member of Publish What You Fund’s U.S. Advisory Committee I’m a big believer in transparency. And not just because it’s the “right thing to do” but because it’s the “smart thing to do” if you care […]
Blog post by George Ingram, chair of our U.S. Advisory Committee & Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. This blog was originally posted on the Brooking’s Institution website here. The end of 2015 is the date by which institutions are supposed to fulfill their commitment to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). To both assess where the […]
Publish What You Fund will present the 2015 U.S. Aid Transparency Review on July 1st 2015. Where FHI360 1825 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20009 When Wednesday July 1, 2015 10:30 am- noon. Followed by a light lunch. RSVP by June 24th Email Nicholas Winnett Panel Mr. Emmanuel Abdulai, Executive Director, Society for Democratic Initiatives Ms. Angelique Crumbly, […]
This week, governments are meeting in New York for the final drafting session of the Financing for Development (FFD) outcome document. It is still uncertain whether we will have strong commitments on transparency and open data, so in coalition with more than 50 other NGOs, we have written to the negotiators with a call to action. […]
