We are running an online consultation on the data quality tests we run as part of the methodology used in the Aid Transparency Index. We are specifically asking for feedback on the data quality tests underpinning the automated assessment of IATI data to get feedback on how they can be improved. Guidelines on how you can provide feedback […]
Next week, the IATI Technical Advisory Group (TAG) will meet in Montreal. The name is somewhat misleading though, as the TAG includes everyone active in the IATI community – both policy AND technical staff. The last TAG was almost two years ago, and the next one might not be for a while, so we’re keen […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance Is transparency a brute force technology exercise? Should IATI support require document screen scraping and financial management software data massaging? International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) classifications, designed to enable aid effectiveness across multiple projects, provide compelling internal information for decision making. Many of us involved in the aid and […]
Its mid-January – past the time to make (and break!) any new year’s resolutions, but still time to reflect on last year and assess the year ahead. One thing is crystal clear: 2014 is a critical year for the U.S. if it is to meet its commitments on aid transparency. In 2013, the Millennium Challenge […]
France is pushing forward its transparency agenda, by publishing information on its aid spending in Mali last week. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) became the first French agencies to publish data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), the agreed common standard for publishing information about spending on development. We […]
Guest post by Jennifer Jentfer, Oxfam America – originally published here. “A lack of transparency creates one of the most dangerous mentalities among humans, like racism or regionalism,” says Faten Belguith, an IREX Community Solutions Program Fellow and co-founder of the Tunisian Network of Associations for Citizenship and Development (La Toile des Associations pour le Civisme et le […]
