The African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched a new online platform to map out its investments across in Africa, announced at the bank’s annual meeting in Kigali. Developed with AidData, MapAfrica is a geocoding tool that coordinates help identify the banks’ activities in different countries and regions. Their end goal is to enable citizens, governments and donors to view the locations of AfDB’s […]
The IATI Annual Report, which looks at progress made by donors in publishing their aid data to the open data standard for aid information, was published yesterday. The highlight for me is that IATI is gaining momentum, with more than 109 new organisations publishing data in 2013 – almost doubling the total number of publishers by the […]
A few weeks ago we talked about our expectations for the first meeting of the Global Partnership on Development Effectiveness in Mexico on 14-15 April. We wanted to see the Global Partnership demonstrating a genuine political will to be held accountable, address bottlenecks and make improvements in making information about their development cooperation more transparent. Did […]
In a recent report, the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) outlines an agenda for reform, for change, and (hopefully) for a better way for the U.S. to do development. The message of the paper, called “The Way Forward”, is clear: the U.S. must deliver on their aid transparency commitments. The report outlines three ways the U.S. Government can […]
On Monday 28th April, Chairman Robert Menendez hosted a Senate briefing, Transparency & Accountability: Tools for Increasing Effectiveness of Foreign Aid, sponsored by the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, Oxfam America and Publish What You Fund. The event which was attended by Hill staffers and members of the NGO community focused on the U.S. aid transparency commitments, the progress made and The Way Forward. […]
‘So… how can you use IATI data?’ This has to be one of the most frequent-frequently asked questions we get here at Publish What You Fund. And it is certainly the one we are always trying to find more answers to. We know that IATI is only as good as the data donors publish to it – […]
