
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 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]


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]
