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 […]
The ninth CONCORD AidWatch report, launched at the OECD in Paris last week, has found that EU aid is off track to meet the 0.7% commitment in 2015, with a current funding gap of €41 billion. The Aid Beyond 2015 report presents country progress from 2013 and concludes that only four EU countries are meeting […]
Consultations on the revised framework for Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) ended last Friday. For those unfamiliar with PEFA, it’s a performance measurement framework for public financial management. It assesses whether a country has the tools to deliver three main budgetary outcomes: aggregate fiscal discipline; strategic resource allocation; and efficient use of resources for […]
LONDON – Despite making several international transparency commitments, the vast majority of the world’s donors are still not sharing enough data about their development activities. The Aid Transparency Index (ATI), released today by Publish What You Fund, is the industry standard for assessing transparency among the top 68 aid-giving organisations, from countries including the U.S. […]
On Wednesday, Publish What You Fund (PWYF) will launch its 2014 Aid Transparency Index, which ranks donors according to the amount – and quality – of the aid information they publish. As a partner, we know that every year the Index prompts a mad rush around the deadline for data collection, as donors seek to […]
Facilitating the integration of aid with partner country budgets When: October 8, 2014, From 3:00-4:30pm Where: World Bank Group Headquarters, Room MC9-100 The Open Aid Partnership, BOOST, Open Contracting, and Digital Engagement are hosting an event in partnership with Publish What You Fund and Oxfam America to explore how transparency and emerging open data standards […]
