Guest blog by George Ingram, David Beckmann and Jim Kolbe, originally posted here. Something peculiar has happened around President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa: a famously dysfunctional Congress actually sent a constructive, bipartisan message to the president about the future of engagement with the continent and other developing countries. Two weeks ago, a group […]
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has become the first multilateral development bank to publish private sector and geocoded aid data to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The AfDB became the 19th signatory to IATI in April 2011. IATI is a voluntary initiative that seeks to improve the transparency of aid in order to increase its effectiveness […]
Over the past few months Publish What You Fund along with some of its partners have been working on a series of blogs to explore Aid Transparency from different perspectives and for different uses. The series of blogs kicked off in March with a blog from Paul O’Brien from Oxfam America and concluded in May […]
On June 24th Publish What You Fund and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network organized an event on Capitol Hill to discuss aid transparency and the International Aid Transparency Initiative. Kindly hosted by the co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus for Effective Foreign Assistance (CCEFA), Ander Crenshaw and Adam Smith, the event brought together over 70 staffers […]
The Committee on Foreign Affairs has expressed concerns over ‘stalled efforts’ in making American aid transparent in a letter to USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah. A bipartisan effort, the letter was issued ahead of the G8 Summit to press USAID about their implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The Committee requested a timeline for delivery, as […]
UNICEF today posted detailed information on its programme activities and funding to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The newly released data provides details of UNICEF’s current work in 128 countries, seven regional office locations and 16 headquarters divisions. This includes allocations for the 2012 programme budget, expenditures by sector and planned programme budget estimates covering the […]
