Matt Bartlett

Programme Administrator

Matt works part-time as Programme Administrator on aidinfo, providing support for many areas of the programme. Principally this involves report writing, budget work, stakeholder profiling and organising meetings and travel for the team.

Matt graduated from the University of Kent with a degree in English Literature and French, which incorporated a year studying at the University of Avignon in France. After completing his degree in 2002, Matt spent two years as a small business owner before moving into the charity and not-for-profit sector. Prior to joining DI in October 2010, Matt worked for The Web of Hope charity in Bath and previously as the Office Manager of a large church in Canterbury.

Matt

News & Views
From Matt

The agreement on a common, open standard for publishing aid information means that stakeholders in developing countries will be able to track how aid money is spent, and then hold donors accountable. This will ensure that services, such as this school in Africa's largest slum Kibera, receive the funding and support that's rightly theirs ©khym54, Flickr

Kenyans demand transparency about public spending

News Published: 28/11/2011

Kenyan citizens are increasingly calling for access to clear and reliable information on public spending, including expenditure that is funded from international aid. Our latest collection of case studies and videos from Kenya attempts to increase our understanding of the issues facing citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) who wish to access information about public spending,… [more]

(c) Antony Robbins

Transparency and accountability in action – social audits

NewsViews Published: 08/12/2010

This recent article on social audits describes the dramatic effects that experiments like these, currently running in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, can produce.  Social audits give the poor the opportunity to hold to account those people spending money on their behalf, by giving them access to spending records as well as the opportunity… [more]