Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund welcome significant steps to improve the transparency of humanitarian aid taken at the World Humanitarian Summit held this week in Turkey. The Summit comes in the wake of the highest level of human suffering since the Second World War. It has produced key commitments towards greater transparency on […]
Date: 23 May 2016 Time: 11.00–12.30 EET Location: Rumeli Hall 7, Lütfi K?rdar Convention and Exhibition Center This World Humanitarian Summit side event will look at how the humanitarian community can achieve increased financial transparency, and how better transparency improves operational effectiveness, accountability and integrity. The event is co-hosted by Publish What You Fund, alongside […]
On 17th January, the High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing released its report Too important to fail – addressing the humanitarian financing gap in the lead up to the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) on 23-24 May in Istanbul. The panel makes the strongest call yet for a commitment from aid organisations and donors to increase the transparency […]
Today is world statistics day and Publish What You Fund is renewing its call for aid transparency. Specifically we are asking for all humanitarian aid to be published to the International Aid Transparency (IATI) by the end of 2016. Our CEO, Rupert Simons, talks about this ambition in his statement at the World Humanitarian Summit Global Consultations in […]
Development Initiatives today launched the Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report, providing an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of global humanitarian financing. Humanitarian crises are messy and complicated – and so is the reporting. Produced annually since 2000, the GHA report answers some basic questions around humanitarian funding: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? How does it get there? […]
Guest post by Paul O’Brien, Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America I wonder if USAID’s Raj Shah is reading Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”. Op-ed writers in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times think the book may help progressives rediscover their mojo, and help all sides overcome false […]
