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Can lessons from aid transparency improve climate finance?

News Published: 14/05/2012

Today we’ve launched a new study with Publish What You Fund that examines the intersection between aid transparency and climate finance. As countries start to report on their climate funding, researchers are poring over the results to make sense of the funding flows; Are pledges being delivered? Is the money new and additional? Does it… [more]

Judith Randel commenting on Brian Atwood's speech at the event in London

The Vital Contribution of Transparency to Development Effectiveness: Video

NewsViews Published: 27/04/2012

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]

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We’re recruiting! Wanted: Open Data specialist

News Published: 20/04/2012

Do you want to play a key role in an international open data initiative that will deliver a step change in greater transparency and accountability of aid resources? We are looking for an open data specialist to join the aidinfo team at Development Initiatives and manage a team that supports the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)…. [more]

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Logging monitors support transparency initiative

NewsViews Published: 10/04/2012

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]

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The transparency of process

Views Published: 30/03/2012

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]

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When: Saturday 19th May 2012

This year the G8 Summit is being held in Chicago, United States…. [more]