In the second of our series of blogs on Nepal, Hum Prasad Bhandari of NGO Federation of Nepal shares his thoughts on the potential of aid transparency and the challenges faced by NGOs and civil society organisations. Foreign aid plays an important role in Nepal’s development. According to the 2010-11 Development Cooperation Report, foreign aid represents 20% of the…
This blog was originally posted on the Development Initiatives (DI) website on 14 June. Aidinfo and the DI Africa hub worked together to set these workshops up. You can view the original post here. There is a growing realisation that increased transparency (and particularly resource transparency) is not necessarily leading to increased use of information, accountability and better… [more]
This week we’re in Kathmandu piloting a training course we’ve developed over the last year with International Budget Partnership, Tiri and Publish What You Fund. It’s been a fantastic learning process to draw on the skills and experience of these organisations. The course is aimed at NGOs in aid-receiving countries. It covers how to access, analyse and… [more]
Congratulations to the 18 organisations who published their spending information on Friday 1st June 2012 to an internationally agreed common standard, the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The move comes as part of the requirements that their funder, the Department for International Development (DFID), has placed on many of its fundees to become more open… [more]
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]
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