Carolyn Culey

Senior Policy Advisor

Carolyn is the senior policy advisor on the aidinfo programme.

Carolyn has 15 years’ policy and campaigning experience in the international development sector. She led Oxfam GB’s parliamentary and government relations work for 11 years and has since worked for a wide range of NGOs on a freelance basis, offering strategic advice and undertaking campaign evaluations.

Carolyn was a major contributor to the Global Humanitarian Assistance 2007/2008 report – writing the chapter on ‘Counting Humanitarian Assistance’ – and also the special report on NGO funding that we undertook for Irish Aid.

Carolyn

Carolyn says:

Making aid more transparent will make aid more effective in reducing poverty – that’s what aidinfo is all about.

News & Views
From Carolyn

Pupils wash their hands before lunch at Villeneuve d'Ascq de Demontreuil community school in Bas Cap Rouge, near Jacmel. CIDA-funded projects have provided psychosocial support for children, encouraging them to return to school after the earthquake. ©ACDI-CIDA, Jean-Francois LeBlanc

Canada launch open data portal

NewsViews Published: 21/07/2011

Canada became latest donor to improve access to aid information with the launch of CIDA’s open data portal a couple of weeks ago. This is a welcome move, and one that marks a partial victory for campaigners in Canada who have consistently lobbied their government to increase the transparency of its aid. Via the portal,… [more]

The World Bank supports education initiatives in Honduras ©World Bank photo collection, Flickr

Surge of support for transparency, says World Bank

NewsViews Published: 05/05/2011

Aid organisations argue against the publication of open data by reasoning that there’s no real demand for it – “no-one’s interested/no-one will use it”. In the past few months, we’ve heard the same argument deployed by both official donors and NGOs who remain sceptical about the potential benefits of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)…. [more]