Using Open Aid Data to Inform Budget Planning in Burkina Faso
A case study of Alimatou Zongo, who works for the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Burkina Faso, on the need for detailed and reliable information.
A Year in Blogs – Publish What You Fund in 2018
It’s been a busy year at Publish What You Fund. As is traditional at this time of year, we’ve been reflecting on what we’ve achieved and what we need to do next. Here’s our quick roundup of what the team has been up to – from the influential Aid Transparency Index, and on the ground research into aid flows in Liberia and Cambodia, to developing new tools to increase access to aid and development data.
A Future Strategy for Aid Transparency
By Giles Bolton, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Publish What You Fund, and Gary Forster, Chief Executive Officer, Publish What You Fund “We have found a lack of information from the government in their response. The databases we are looking at don’t match. International donors don’t always have transparency and accountability built into […]
Ten Years of Aid Transparency – Fulfilling the Dream of Accra
By Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center for Global Development, Director for Europe and a senior fellow, and Gary Forster, Chief Executive Officer, Publish What You Fund Aid and development transparency has come a long way in ten years. In this, the first of a two-part blog series, we look back at the […]
News roundup: Do you know how to get donor budget data?
Do you know there is a wealth of past, present and future donor budgets, and a library of strategic documents within the IATI organisation file data? And do you know how to access them? If you are skilled in reading XML and interrogating raw data in the IATI Registry then perhaps the answer is yes. […]
Publishing Practices – Improving the Publication of Performance-Related Indicators
As we have outlined in the first blog post of the series on publishing practices, getting the basics right is essential to improve both the user-friendliness and the usefulness of IATI data, removing barriers to data use, including by non-experts. Aid transparency is more than just putting user-friendly data out there. What really matters is […]