Publish What You Fund is delighted to be a finalist in the Transparency category of the Bond International Development Awards 2017. After being shortlisted for our work on the Aid Transparency Index, we are now in the final alongside WaterAid and Restless Development – you can see all of the submissions on the Bond website. […]
Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund welcome the strong emphasis on increased transparency in the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)’s long-awaited Bilateral Development Review and Multilateral Development Review, both published today. DFID has been a leading player in global efforts to improve transparency for many years and in these latest reviews we see […]
The Reality of Aid 2010 Report was presented in Brussels on the 7th December. The biennial report on aid and development cooperation issues is written by authors from NGOs worldwide, whose research draws on knowledge and expertise from aid agencies, academia, community-based organizations and governments. This year the report highlights aid transparency’s central role in […]
Yesterday, 25th May, saw the launch of the ONE campaign’s Data Report 2010, in which aid transparency emerged as a central theme. ‘Monitoring the G8 promise to Africa’, the report summarizes countries’ promises of development assistance and progress towards fulfilling these pledges in the last year.
The Aid Transparency Movement, an article published by David Sasaki in Global Voices, provides a clear and concise overview of the necessity of aid transparency and how far the movement has come to date. He draws together the organisations and initiatives which have contributed to the global campaign for more and better aid data disclosure, resulting in a useful reference for both the layman and the expert.
“Whether aid works is a contentious topic with debate ranging from Jeffrey Sachs and Bono to Bill Easterly and Dambisa Moyo. Nonetheless aid transparency is emerging as an area of common ground. For sceptics it has the potential to reduce distortions. For advocates it is a way of improving both the quality and impact of […]
