Using Data to Strengthen Evidence-Based Journalism in Kenya
A case study of Winnie Kamau, and her work to strengthen evidence-based journalism in Kenya.
New animation: Why aid transparency matters
Why aid transparency matters from Publish What You Fund on Vimeo. This video has both English and French subtitles – just click the CC in the bottom right hand corner to select them.
US foreign aid transparency: How to fix dueling dashboards
This blog was written by Sally Paxton, our US representative, and George Ingram, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chair of the Board of Friends of Publish What You Fund. It was originally posted on June 13th on the Brookings Institution’s Website. The U.S. publishes an enormous amount of data on foreign assistance—including detailed information on […]
Italian elections – Choosing the next leader for ‘the open aid of the future’?
This blog includes input from Research Assistant Ines Schultes. Thanks to Luca De Fraia, Deputy Secretary General of ActionAid Italy for comments on an earlier draft. On 4th March, Italian voters will be going to the polls for their general elections. Following an increase in the budget, international development cooperation appears to be back on the […]
Better to be open about aid than fiddle the figures
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, […]
Three key takeaways from the Transparency Research Conference 2017
We recently attended the 5th Transparency Research Conference in Limerick. Here are the three key transparency, open data and accountability issues that we learned.