Guest post by Paul O’Brien, Vice President for Policy and Campaigns at Oxfam America I wonder if USAID’s Raj Shah is reading Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”. Op-ed writers in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times think the book may help progressives rediscover their mojo, and help all sides overcome false […]
Next week, the world’s development actors will meet at the first High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation in Mexico. The meeting is an opportunity to kick-start efforts to ensure governments’ transparency commitments on development cooperation are met by 2015. Along with more than 50 other organisations, networks and individuals, we have written advocacy […]
Guest post by Till Bruckner, Transparify Over the past two decades, support by Western donors has led to an explosion in the number of think tanks in developing countries. Conventional wisdom has it that such think tanks strengthen democracy and improve the policy formulation process. They are thought to enrich public and political debates by […]
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The 2014 International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) technical meeting finished with participants feeling positive about the future of open data and development transparency. New Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), John Adams of UK’s DFID said: “The TAG was amazing – the range of people, the energy, the enthusiasm were fantastic. We have a […]
This article was first published on the Global Partnership’s Effective Development Co-operation Blog: http://devcooperation.org The world’s largest and most influential providers of aid reaffirmed their commitment to transparency this year. A high-level panel advising on the framework to follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) called for a “data revolution”, and G8 members specifically committed […]
