Written by our U.S. team members, Sally Paxton and Catalina Reyes On February 6 Brookings and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) hosted an event to present the MCC Principles into Practice Report. The event was also an opportunity to hear from leading donors on the implementation of their aid transparency commitments and more specifically […]
The first drafting session of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) was held in New York on the week of the 26th January, in spite of the agenda being re-scheduled to avoid a potentially dangerous blizzard (that thankfully never happened). We came back to the office with a little bit more understanding […]
The Government of the Netherlands, Publish What You Fund, and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) co-organized a lunchtime discussion titled ‘Open data for Development in the Financing for Development Outcome’ hosted by UNDP, around the Financing for Development first drafting session in New York last week. The poor weather in New York led to the initial […]
This is a guest blog written by the European Union Delegation to Myanmar. All photos credited to Leigh Mitchell. Donors and aid have flooded into Myanmar since the Government began its democratic transition and unprecedented social and economic reform programme in 2011. Myanmar officials quickly realised that it would be difficult to manage and guide this assistance without the […]
Years ago, I spent a summer working in the research department of an investment bank. My job was to analyse company data and spot long-term trends in equities markets. As finance professionals know, the data can be overwhelming: numbers blinking on Bloomberg terminals, scrolling across TV screens and clogging up your email in endless reports. […]
A group of international CSOs, including Publish What You Fund, have submitted a letter to Directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) expressing concerns that the Bank’s draft transparency policy is a backwards step and not in keeping with other international financial institutions and official actors, who are improving their transparency and accountability policies. The […]
