Where is the EU on the Road to 2015?
“We will work to improve the availability and public accessibility of information on development co-operation and other development resources, building on our respective commitments in this area. To...
View ArticleCase study: Developing a Homegrown Aid Database: Lessons from Bangladesh
This is a guest post by Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan, Aid Effectiveness Unit, Economic Relations Division, Government of Bangladesh With sustained economic growth in recent decades, Bangladesh has been...
View ArticleCase study: The European Commission’s Inter-service Working Group
As an original signatory to IATI and commitments made at Busan, the European Commission has played an active role in the development of the standard as well as meeting its own transparency commitments....
View ArticleCase study: Implementing Aid Transparency in Sweden
In 2010, the Swedish government introduced the transparency guarantee of Swedish aid, and in 2011 the first version of the Openaid.se platform was launched. The progress made by Sida so far is due to a...
View ArticleCase study: Mohinga – Myanmar’s home-grown Aid Information Management System
Myanmar has seen an influx of international aid since the new Government began its democratic transition and social and economic reform programme in 2011. Government officials quickly realised the...
View ArticleCase study: The “publish once, use often” approach of the Netherlands
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MinBuza) renews the data held in its data warehouse every month and publishes it directly to the IATI Registry. The information is used to monitor where MinBuza...
View ArticlePartner perspective: AidOpener
This is a guest post by Michael Medley – a scholar, teacher, activist and consultant, specializing in the Sudans, and international aid issues. Learn more at www.aidopener.org AidOpener. For activists...
View ArticlePartner perspective: Aidspan
Aidspan is an independent observer of the Global Fund. We spoke to Aidspan’s Senior Programme Officer, Angela Kageni, about their work with the Fund and her experiences with open data. Can you tell me...
View ArticleWhere is the U.S. on the Road to 2015?
Three and a half years ago at the last major aid effectiveness forum in Busan, Korea, the U.S. government signed the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and agreed to implement it fully by...
View ArticleThe Home Straight
The 31st of December 2015 marks the deadline that donors set themselves to make their aid fully transparent. The Road to 2015 campaign was launched over a year ago to push donors to meet their...
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