Last week, the South Korean Government in Seoul announced it will join the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) – the first being in charge of grants and the second in charge of loans – will both join IATI by 2015. Rachel Rank, […]
Guest post by Amy Bennett at OpenTheGovernment.org, to mark the beginning of Sunshine Week in Washington, D.C. For years US civil society organizations like mine and many of our coalition partners have been calling attention to the delays, mind-boggling technical barriers, and bureaucratic resistance to openness that contribute to making the US Freedom of Information Act […]
Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies held an event to discuss aid effectiveness, transparency, and accountability in the U.S. Congressman Ted Poe, one of the key authors of the 2013 Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act, opened the event by highlighting the importance of the Aid Transparency Index as the only measure of donor transparency. A panel […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a threat to the development status quo or an opportunity to break through the “dead aid” narrative? The problem with transparency is that it usually refers to the other guy. Politicians want governments to be transparent. Donors want beneficiaries to be transparent. Transparency is a threatening concept. […]
As Communications Manager here at Publish What You Fund, I often get calls from journalists, researchers, academics, and NGOs looking for information about a particular donor’s aid spending. It is the nature of the job – and a testament to the fact that we are the leading organisation in the field of aid transparency – […]
The 360 Giving project, which campaigns for greater transparency in grant-making, has launched a prototype standard to improve transparency of UK grant data. The initiative’s aim is that 80 per cent of grants made by UK charities, foundations and other grant-makers, and 50 per cent by number and/or volume, will be reported as open data to agreed […]
