Friday, February 17th, 2012
Blog posting by Hannah George on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 18:01 Found via @TimShorten
"The World Bank has taken landmark steps to make information accessible to the public and globally promote transparency and accountability, according to the first annual report on the World Bank’s Access to Information (AI) Policy.[20/02/2012 - links is ...
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Friday, February 17th, 2012
A posting on the Development Policy Blog by Stephen Howes, on 15 february 2012.
This blog examines AusAID’s Office of Development Effectiveness latest annual report released just before Christmas 2010, which was published in two parts, one providing an international comparative perspective (and summarized in this blog), the other drawing on ...
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
(from the great AidInfo website)
"At aidinfo we conduct research and liaise with aid donors and recipients to build up a case for aid transparency. We want to show that improving and increasing the amount that donors report on their aid contributions can help communities to track aid spending. In turn, ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
William Savedoff and Christina Droggitis, Centre for Global Development, Aug 2011. Available as pdf (2 pages)
Excerpt:
"One organization that has taken the need for impact evaluation seriously is the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The first of the MCC programs came to a close this fiscal year, and in the next year the ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
The 12th April 2011 Draft plan is now available in pdf and MS Word
Introduction
"AusAID is the Australian Government’s Agency for International Development, an executive agency within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio. Its primary role is the implementation and oversight of the Australian Government aid program. The ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Blog posting by Owen Barder
February 22nd, 2011
"I’ve spent the last three years working on aid transparency. As I’m moving on to a very exciting new role (watch this space for more details) this seems a good time to reflect on what I’ve learned in the last three years.
This is a ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
See Devil in the Details, Nature, Volume:470, Pages: 305–306 , 17 February 2011.
How many aid agencies could do the same, when their projects manage to deliver good results? Are there lessons to learned here?
Article text:
As analysis of huge data sets with computers becomes an integral tool of research, how should ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
....A question posed to the Research Helpdesk of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre
"Key findings: DFID appears to have gone the furthest among aid agencies in developing the concept of ‘value for money’ (VFM). It is the only agency that explicitly uses the terminology frequently in its policies ...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
[from the IDS website]
McGee,R. and Gaventa, J. - 23-Nov-10
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Transparency and accountability have emerged over the past decade as key ways to address both developmental failures and democratic deficits. In the development context, the argument is that through greater accountability, ‘leaky ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
(from Karin Christiansen,Publish What You Fund )
"I am proud to share with you Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Assessment that we have been working on over the last year. This is the first global assessment of the transparency of 30 major donors across seven indicators from eight ...
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