
It is no exaggeration to suggest that the (transparency) movement…will produce the most important transformation in the 50 years of modern development experience. Transparency will lead us to new achievements in poverty reduction. Brian Atwood, Chair of the OECD DAC Brian Atwood, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), has pledged the full support… [more]


This week we have a guest blog from Resource Extraction Monitoring (REM), who have just published their first set of data on their current projects to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). REM specialise in independent monitoring of law enforcement and natural resource extraction. They have offices in Congo Brazzaville and DRC and work in… [more]


It’s time for the third and final segment in our three-part guest blog series from the author David Shaman. You can read the first two parts of this series here and here. David is the author of “The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the Revolutionary Struggle for Transparency“, an insider’s account of how the world’s largest… [more]


Today, our partner programme GHA have launched a new report: Disaster risk reduction: spending where it should count. The report provides a comprehensive view of the levels of international DRR spending, placed in the context of need and vulnerability, and reveals the shockingly low levels of investment and inequities of funding in this area at a… [more]
