The World Bank has increased access to its data by launching the World Bank Finances website; the newest addition to the Bank’s open data site. This is a welcome and very encouraging development in the wake of the World Bank’s first publication to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in May. The website includes detailed […]
It has been announced that one third (33.05%) of all reported Official Development Assistance (ODA)* will be published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) before the key HLF-4 meeting in Korea later this year. This was confirmed by the release from IATI of a further five implementation schedules last week. Donors who become signatories […]
Big congratulations go to Development Initiatives Poverty Research (DIPR), who yesterday became the fourth organisation, and first NGO, to publish their data in an IATI compliant format. They have published very detailed data on the Hewlett Foundation funded aidinfo programme, and their implementation schedule includes dates for later publications of their data. Later this year […]
The first handover of the Make Aid Transparent petition signed by 5012 people from 115 countries took place at a crucial meeting of aid officials at the headquarters of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris yesterday. The co-Chairs of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, Talaat Abdel Malek and Bert Koenders, […]
The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) has recently released a position paper setting out what CABRI sees as sufficient levels of aid transparency in order for aid to work better in African countries. The paper considers aid transparency as ‘…an indispensible pillar for the achievement of sustainable development in Africa’, highlighting its relevance for […]
On June 23 the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that is has become the 20th signatory to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), demonstrating the Fund’s commitment to aid transparency. Becoming a signatory to IATI means that the Global Fund, along with other major donors, will publish its aid information in […]
