There has been a lot of talk about humanitarian aid and where it has been going – or has not been going, as in the cases of Haiti and Syria. Last week, the Guardian reported that close to $1.5bn in aid pledged to Syria has ‘largely failed to materialised’, while NPR reported that only a fraction of the […]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is now presenting information about aid contributions in a format that is compatible with industry standards. OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service (FTS) has been publishing data on international humanitarian aid reported by donors and recipient organisations for the past 20 years. By working with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), and […]
[Guest post by Alan Hudson, ONE Director (Transparency & Accountability) – originally posted Feb 25th, 2013 on the ONE blog] As David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos made clear, plans for the G8 Summit are taking shape. In addition to tackling the threat of extremism and terrorist violence, and addressing issues around agriculture, food […]
February 23 is Open Data Day, a global initiative that encourages citizens around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. The event comes as aidinfo, a leading transparency […]
Last week, the Danish aid agency Danida unveiled of a set of initiatives (what it has called their ‘transparency package’). This package includes a programme and project database, which will be updated annually. In all, there are four new sections on the aid agency’s website: Send feedback to Danida: Organisations or individuals can directly praise, […]
Guest post by Paolo de Renzio, Senior Research Fellow, Open Budget Initiative If you want to fight poverty, you need to care about budgets. They are the government’s most powerful tool to meet the needs and priorities of a country and its people. Public budgets are the blueprints for how the government will raise and spend the […]
