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New working paper released from Publish What You Fund
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 16:41
One step closer to full aid transparency - IATI Steering Group 7 July
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 17:34
Aid donors meet in Paris to agree historic standards for aid
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - 14:04

Major aid donors, partner countries and CSOs meet this week to agree on a set of standards for publishing aid information at the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Steering Committee in Paris on 7 July 2010.

Transparency and accountability take centre stage at DCF in New York
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 15:14

The 2010 Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) opens today in New York, with accountable and transparent development cooperation as one of its key themes.

Oxfam speaks out on aid transparency
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 16:26

The recent release of Oxfam America’s excellent report on aid effectiveness and transparency, highlights many of the issues that we here at aidinfo are working on.

Thoughts on the EU AidWatch report
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 18:03

The focus given to the importance of aid transparency in the latest EU AidWatch report, launched today, has created a bit of a buzz here in the aidinfo offices. After all, this is what we’re all about.

The report - ‘Penalty against Poverty: More and Better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals’ (second down on the Concord home page) - stresses concerns that collectively, EU member states are failing to meet previously agreed commitments on aid quantity and quality.

New directions in UK development policy
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 14:37

The Secretary of State for International Development in the UK’s new coalition government, Andrew Mitchell, made his first major policy speech on development policy on Thursday. The full text of the speech is here.

ONE Data Report 2010 advocates increased need for transparency
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 11:46

The ONE Data Report 2010 was launched on Tuesday 25 May. This report considers whether G7 governments have met the aid promises made to sub-Saharan Africa at the G8 Gleneagles summit in 2005. Building on this assessment, it makes a series of recommendations calling for donors to step up and qualify their commitments for Africa beyond 2010. Aid transparency is a key feature of the report.

Transparency is not enough: context, interpretation and empowerment
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 13:43

Danah Boyd spoke at the Government 2.0 Expo in Washington DC on why "Transparency is Not Enough". The link leads to a transcript of her talk and a video.

Can aid agencies be knowledge based organisations?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 13:52

At a recent meeting of philanthropic foundation, Brad Smith, President of the Foundation Center, laid down this challenge to his audience. Do charitable foundations want to be administrative organisations, primarily focused on managing paperwork and money? Or do they want to be knowledge-based organisations, which learn, share ideas, and add value to the grants they give?

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