Guest post by Philippe de Fontaine Vive, European Investment Bank We are all witnessing the ever growing demand for more transparency and information about the activities and impacts of governments and public institutions. This trend is supported by new opportunities based on technology and tools that make it easier to access, analyse and share information and data. […]
The Netherlands and Bangladesh have been confirmed as chairs of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) steering committee. The new chair and vice-chairs, respectively, were confirmed at the committee meeting yesterday in Copenhagen. The Netherlands will represented by Robin Uyterlinde, and Bangladesh will be represented by Abul Kalam Azad. The appointment will last for two years. […]
Guest post by George Ingram, chair of our U.S. Advisory Committee. Originally posted here. As a senator and now as president, Barack Obama has set the pace on open government. The commitments have been impressive. However—and sometimes understandably—implementation has lagged. But unless there are unknown steps afoot, the administration risks losing the momentum at theOpen Government Partnership […]
Cross-posted on the Open Government Partnership blog. As a co-founder of the Open Government Partnership, the Obama Administration presented its first National Action Plan (NAP) in 2011. Importantly, this plan included the commitment to “release and implement government wide reporting requirements for foreign aid.” The OMB bulletin released in September 2012 met the first half of this commitment unambiguously. The […]
Every year we produce an Aid Transparency Index in order to assess the state of aid transparency among the world’s major donors. And every year we are faced with the question of which organisations to include. In previous years organisations were selected on the basis of their membership of the OECD DAC or IATI. Additional […]
“A huge weight of analysis that in turn drives a large volume of money for the world’s poorest people rests on a flimsy, uncertain, patchy body of data.” That is the damning conclusion of a new report from Development Initiatives. The boldly titled Investments to End Poverty stands out from the crowd of ever-more-ambitious development programs by starting […]
