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AidView – we need your help!

News Published: 27/03/2012

We’ve recently launched our new aid data platform – AidView – in beta. Aidview allows you to easily access detailed and timely aid data published through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), via a series of interactive visualisations. Available through iPads, Andriods and all modern web browsers, AidView enables you to have the information you… [more]

David Shaman

Energy and focus: where transparency and international development have merged in the 21st Century

Views Published: 23/03/2012

It’s time for the second segment in our three-part guest blog series from the author David Shaman. We will run the last blog in this series at the same time next week. You can read the first blog that we published last week here.  David is the author of “The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the… [more]

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International spending on disaster risk reduction (DRR) requires dramatic review

News Published: 20/03/2012

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]

Our guest blogger David Shaman, author of “The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the Revolutionary Struggle for Transparency"

The Meaning of Transparency – A Perspective

Views Published: 16/03/2012

This week sees the first in a three-part guest blog series from David Shaman, we will run part two of this series at the same time next week.  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 international financial institution makes… [more]

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Post-Busan group meet for the first time in Paris

NewsViews Published: 15/02/2012

The Busan Partnership Interim Group (BPIG) met for the first time earlier this week in Paris to decide what the post-Busan architecture on aid effectiveness will look like. As well as looking at how the Busan Partnership will be implemented and managed, they are also making the important decision of what indicators will be used… [more]

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