The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has this month released its Business Plan for 2011–2015. Central to the plan is a commitment to ensuring aid transparency within DFID to deliver value for money to the taxpayer, government accountability, and improved aid effectiveness: “DFID regards transparency as fundamental to improving its accountability to UK citizens […]
Publish What You Fund has developed an Aid Transparency Assessment. This is the first global assessment for aid transparency and we plan to produce more in the future.
On 13th October the UK aid transparency guarantee was examined by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, with queries addressed to Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development.
It’s Right to Know Day! To mark this day which raises awareness of the right of access to information, we have been working with DFID and Open Knowledge Foundation to produce a UK aid data visualisation.
On 20th September, the first day of the MDG Summit in New York, Andrew Mitchell, UK Minister for International Development showed his intention to lead the world on aid transparency.
In an interview in the Independent on September 18th, Andrew Mitchell, UK Minister for International Development, stresses the importance of aid transparency ahead of the MDG Summit in New York.
Mitchell announced a UK-U.S. plan to ensure aid money delivers the best possible results. He went on to say that more results-based spending would convince a sceptical public of the value of aid.
