This week, the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership will convene its first meeting in London. It is just over a year since donors, partner countries, emerging economies and Civil Society Organisations (CSO’s) met at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea where the ”Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation” was… [more]
aidinfo last week celebrated a milestone as UN Women became the 100th development organisation to publish their data to The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), complying to the IATI Standard, which ensures that the data they published is open and accessible to anyone and in a format that is comparable to others. Everyone at the aidinfo office was excited at… [more]
Joint blog post by aidinfo Team Lead Simon Parrish and Director of Publish What You Fund, David Hall-Matthews. This week sees the IATI Secretariat announcing the milestone of 100 IATI publishers. This is a fantastic achievement and one which we should celebrate. While some prominent transparency champions – including the UK, World Bank, and the… [more]
This post first appeared on Linda Raftree’s blog on 13 June, many thanks to Linda for allowing us to cross-post. This is a shortened version that covers discussion that took place on the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and its impacts on US-based development agencies. You can view the full version here. The Technology Salon hosted at IREX on Thursday,… [more]