Development fashions go through predictable stages. At first, breathless blog posts proclaim the idea: budget support, microfinance, laptops. Soon, governments and funders are jumping over themselves to adopt the idea while wise commentators note that it is not the answer to everything. In stage three, the idea falters and the proponents bleat “but we never […]
Those familiar with our work will know that every year we assess how transparent donors are in the annual Aid Transparency Index. To do this, we monitor what’s being published over a period of around three months to give a reliable snapshot of the current state of play. Last Friday, our research team were busy […]
This is a guest blog post by Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan of the Aid Effectiveness Unit, Economic Relations Division, Government of Bangladesh. “It is satisfying to note that the response from our development partners since the establishment of AIMS is very encouraging. For the majority of donors on the system, we now have a quite comprehensive data set. It is […]
This is a guest post by Saya Saulière and Leonardo Pérez from Oxfam Intermón. Last January Oxfam Intermon, the Spanish affiliate of Oxfam, launched a new website on aid transparency and monitoring (www.realidadayuda.org/en). We are pleased to announce that most of the contents of the website are now available in English. For the last 20 […]
Publish What You Fund congratulates InterAction on their first publication to International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This is an important step forward for the transparency of U.S. NGOs and represents many years of hard work from our colleagues. InterAction joins over 300 other organizations already publishing to IATI including Plan USA and Publish What You Fund. As […]
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 […]
