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NGO Federation of Nepal

Aid Transparency in Nepal

Views Published: 20/12/2012

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…

Participants at the aid information workshop, Nairobi, Kenya

How do you improve information for poverty elimination?

News Published: 20/06/2012

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]

Aid Transparency workshop in Nepal

Learnings on aid transparency in Nepal

News Published: 18/06/2012

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]

The Department for International Development (DFID) funds many health projects through its grants to NGOs. Here, a health worker gives a child polio drops. Polio has almost been eradicated in Pakistan but a few cases remain ©DFID

Organisations move towards greater transparency

News Published: 11/06/2012

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]

Windmill and power lines near the Dave Johnston Power Plant, © Boyd Norton, 1973, Flickr

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]

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