Posts Tagged ‘aid transparency’
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2 December 2011
Aid Transparency Endorsed at Conference in Busan, Korea
Officials from some 160 countries meeting in Busan, South Korea, agreed Dec. 1 that development aid should be spent more efficiently and more transparently.
Delegates adopted a 12-page non-binding declaration that will “establish a new, inclusive and representative Global Partnership for… -
17 November 2011
Publish What You Fund Rates 58 Donors on Transparency
Publish What You Fund has launched the 2011 pilot Aid Transparency Index ranking 58 donors on their levels of aid transparency and finding them wanted.
The index uses 37 indicators of aid transparency to rate donors at the organisation, country and… -
10 June 2011
Aid Transparency Group Launches Petition Drive
A coalition of over 50 civil society groups from 20 countries June 8 launched a campaign Make Aid Transparent, which calls on governments and other aid donors to publish more and better information about the money they give.
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4 March 2011
Focus Aid Transparency on Recipients, Barder Says
Aid transparency activist Owen Barder stresses the need to focus on the needs of aid recipients, such as transparency of spending execution, in an extensive blog post in which he consolidates lessons he has learned.
Although hinting at an upcoming… -
7 January 2011
FOI NOTES: Video From Mexico; Aid Transparency
Mexico: A new video documentary on FOI in Mexico has just been released, entitled ¿Qué Pasó con mi Dinero? / What happened to my Money?
Spanish version, here: http://www.fundar.org.mx/indicepresupuestoabierto2010/index.html
Version with English subtitles, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZSt25if4E&feature=related
United States: The new U.S.… -
9 December 2010
Data Lacking for Broad Aid Transparency Study
A lack of data inhibited an effort to compare what information is publicly available on development aid from international institutions and donor nations, according to a new study by Publish What You Fund.
Without enough primary, comparable data, putting together… -
3 December 2010
Evidence of Transparency’s Benefits Scant, Promising
Existing evidence on the impact of “transparency and accountability initiatives” (TAIs), including freedom of information, is “weak,” according to a major new review of the research.
This finding on the empirical front “does not mean that the impacts of TAIs… -
23 September 2010
Article 19 Says Transparency Slighted in MDG Conclusions
The international summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) failed to adequately recognize the value of greater transparency, according to civil society observers.
“Global civil society told world leaders that for the MDGs to succeed, two things were essential: assistance… -
3 September 2010
Lebanese CSOs React to Disclosure of Strategy
It’s still early days for the World Bank’s new policy of disclosing certain documents in advance of Executive Board meetings, so lessons about it are just trickling in.
The policy gives interested parties a last chance to comment on upcoming… -
27 August 2010
Development Aid Mapped With Geo-Referenced Data
Researchers recently unveiled some of the first efforts to map development projects, a technique aimed at improving coordination of effort.
Using new “geo-referenced aid data,” the projects by AidData plotted the spatial and sectoral coordination of active projects by the… -
4 June 2010
ADB Proposes Revisions to Public Communications Policy
The Asian Development Bank June 4 issued proposed changes in its Public Communications Policy. Release of the “consultation draft” comes as the ADB commences a series of worldwide meetings. The first session will be June 15 in Canada, and the last is scheduled for August 2 in the Philippines. The ADB’s 12-country consultation schedule is posted online.
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1 April 2010
IDB Governors Raise Bar for New Transparency Policy
The Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank on March 21 made several commitments to improve transparency at the IDB. The Board’s statements go slightly beyond those contained in a recently proposed outline of potential changes to the disclosure policy. Just before the Board meeting in Cancun, Mexico, the IDB released a “Policy Profile” that …
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1 April 2010
Groups Seek Transparency for Aid to Haiti
As a major conference on aid to Haiti began in New York March 31, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations made a series of pro-transparency recommendations.
The recommendations “highlight the need to change the way donor states provide aid, by empowering… -
20 October 2009
New Report on Aid Transparency: Not Available! Not Accessible!
Madrid, Spain — Transparency NGO Access Info Europe released a report on October 20 entitled “Not Available! Not Accessible!” to coincide with the opening of the International Aid Transparency Initiative’s conference of donors and recipient governments in the Hague. The report shows…
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19 June 2009
Closely Guarded EIB Framework Agreements Appear Largely Technical
The European Investment Bank is proposing to disclose Framework Agreements only with the permission of the country partner, but the agreements appear to be largely technical and legal documents, judging from a very old one supplied by the Bank and…
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12 June 2009
EIB Proposes Limit on Disclosure of Framework Agreements, Invites Public Comment on Transparency Policies
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is proposing to let countries decide whether to disclose the “Framework Agreement” documents that guide EIB lending to individual countries.
Tajikistan is one such country getting EIB help. On February 11, 2009, the EIB announced… -
26 May 2009
Secret Summaries of World Bank Meetings Illuminate Proceedings
The “minutes” of the World Bank’s executive board meetings, released publicly, are brief notations of the official action, usually one paragraph.
They reveal almost nothing about what transpired during the closed deliberations.
The “summaries,” by contrast, describe the key… -
22 December 2008
World Bank, Others to Support CSOs with New Funds
A new “Global Partnership Facility” holds the promise of new resources for civil society groups working on governance and anticorruption issues, including freedom of information and media development.
The $65 million four-year initiative being administered by the World Bank is… -
1 December 2008
International Lenders Permit Georgia to Limit Release
of Information; Groups Protest Lack of Transparency
Transparency was a casualty when international donors gathered recently to consider emergency aid to Georgia.
Civil society groups requested disclosure of the primary document to be discussed at the multi-donor conference — the… -
24 September 2008
Accra Agenda Transparency Langauge Called Unspecific
The IATA announcement came as 1,200 delegates from 120 countries met Sept. 2-4 to complete the “Accra Agenda for Action on Aid Effectiveness.”
Many civil society organisations dubbed the communiqué an “agenda for inaction.” Among other things, the groups wanted…