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? […]
Last week, the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) technical team published a series of guidance videos to help organisations looking to publish their aid information. Even if you are an old-pro when it comes to all things aid transparency, I recommend visiting the IATI channel to check them out. The videos walk through the whole process of data publication, addressing […]
When the U.S. made its first foray into the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), it adopted a “whole of government” approach. While there is merit to having various agencies of government speaking with one voice, this also creates problems when it comes to publishing quality data. We were very encouraged when the U.S. changed course on this and […]
Guest post by Alessandra Flora, EurActiv – originally posted here. Ora che anche la Francia e il Giappone vi hanno aderito, l’Italia e la Russia restano gli unici membri del G8 a non partecipare al registro sugli aiuti internazionali, comunemente noto come IATI (acronimo di International Aid Transparency Initiative). In altre parole, ad oggi, le informazioni […]
Data collection continues for the 2014 Aid Transparency Index (ATI). And for the first time, we are sampling documents and data on the results, conditions and sub-national location published to the IATI Registry in XML format. Sampling essentially means manually checking that the information provided is specific to that activity, has been appropriately tagged using IATI […]
The Government of Japan this week published aid data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative for the first time. This exciting development sees data from both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) appearing in the IATI Registry. David Hall-Matthews, Director of Publish What You Fund, said: ‘We are very pleased to see Japan engaging with […]
