It’s the second week of 2014, we are all back at work, and it already seems like Christmas was a distant memory. But that doesn’t mean it’s too late to think about what the long year stretching out before us might have in store. Here are my three aid transparency predictions for 2014: France will […]
Guest post by Doug Hadden, FreeBalance – originally posted here. A recent analysis by Publish What You Fund found that larger donors tend to have better aid transparency than smaller donors. This analysis was based on the aid commitment and the quality of transparency information published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard. This generated a […]
I’m leaving Publish What You Fund in a few days after an exhilarating two and a half years. Over that period, I’ve been fortunate to work with a superb team but also with a diverse community in and around international development: government budget officials, civil society activists, politicians, academics, IT systems managers, open data experts, […]
Earlier this week, the European Court of Auditors released its findings of an audit of European financial support to help developing countries cope with climate impacts. The report reveals the overall EU coordination with member states, who provide the large majority of European climate finance, is inadequate. Auditors highlight how the lack of a robust monitoring, reporting and […]
Today the U.S.-based Foundation Center became the 200th publisher to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The Foundation Center, the leading source of information on philanthropy worldwide, has become the 200th organisation to publish data to the IATI standard. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database of US, and increasingly global, grant-makers and their grants. […]
Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index ranking 177 countries/territories – including all EU member states – offers a warning that the abuse of power, secret dealings and bribery continue to ravage societies around the world. In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2013, Denmark and New Zealand tie for first place with scores of 91. Afghanistan, North […]
