Monthly Archives: June 2010
IATI Letters to Ministers
Ahead of the 7 July International Aid Transparency Initiative Steering Committee meeting in Paris, CSOs from around the world urged development…
Shah: USAID needs major reform
Rajiv Shah, director of the U.S. government’s Agency for International Development, USAID, once more promised major reform of the aid…
More transparency in U.S. aid to Pakistan?
Earlier this month, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry urged Ambassador Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan,…
Open Data essential to UK foreign policy reform
Chatham House has released a report, ‘Organizing for Influence: UK Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty’, which highlights open…
Read this month’s newsletter
For a quick overview of aid transparency in the last month, read our latest newsletter: Everyone’s talking transparency.
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UNDCF publish paper reviewing accountability and transparency
The UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) has published a background paper in preparation for the DCF High-level Symposium being held in Helsinki…
EU AidWatch Report urges remaining EU donors to join IATI
The 2010 EU AidWatch Report was launched this morning in Brussels. Having ‘tracked the EU’s progress towards achieving its aid…
Oxfam report highlights necessity of aid information
As part of their Ownership in Practice series, Oxfam America has this week released the report ‘Information: Let countries know…
Schwegmann: Advocacy and aid transparency for more effective aid
In her blog at the Atlantic Community, Claudia Schwegmann, founder of OpenAid, argues for increased aid transparency and civil society…
UKaid Transparency Guarantee well received
On Thursday 3rd June the Department for International Development made a commitment to a new ‘UKaid Transparency Guarantee’. Publish What…
