Guest post by Carlos Villota, CONCORD AidWatch One in five people still live below extreme poverty line of $ 1.25 dollars per day. The last decade has seen real improvements, not least in halving the number of people living in poverty, but the real tragedy is that it has not been enough and there is […]
Paris, le 18 septembre – Alors que François Hollande se rend au Mali pour l’investiture du nouveau président, la France a annoncé hier la mise en ligne d’un site internet de traçabilité de l’aide française au Mali. « Cette première en France », selon les mots même du Ministre du développement porteur de cette initiative, est certes une […]
The French Government has just announced that aid transparency is a core priority of its new development policy and it will start publishing its aid data in accordance with an internationally agreed common standard in 2014. The Inter-ministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) met this morning for the first time in four years, under […]
You may not have noticed from the headlines, but the G8 Summit was a real triumph for transparency. It was a brave and ambitious thing to put on the agenda, because it is not an easy issue to negotiate on. When it comes to the details, hundreds of different interests – many of them vested […]
The G8 is finally delivering on aid transparency promises with all countries committing to full and timely implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This includes France, Italy and Japan, for the first time. Implementation of IATI is achievable and consistent with the goals of the Lough Erne Summit, as it provides a standard […]
Donors from around the world met in Brussels last month to pledge funds for war-torn Mali, following a military coup that took place in March this year and later fighting between Tuareg and Islamist rebels. International donors agreed to provide Mali with over €3 billion in aid and the European Union pledged €1.35 billion, nearly […]
