This blog was written by Megan O’Donnell (Center for Global Development), Alex Farley-Kiwanuka and Jamie Holton (Publish What You Fund). It was first published on the CGD website.

As the COVID-19 pandemic and global recession exacerbate resource constraints with outsized consequences for women and girls, there is an increased need for clear and consistent data on the extent to which bilateral and multilateral donors are pri...

Through our gender financing project, we are engaging with different gender-related data to track spending towards gender equality. Our Data Diaries series asks development experts why gender-related data matters to their work, how they engage with this data, and what improvements they would like to see to make this data more transparent.

Our first Data Diary is by Megan O’Donnell, Assistant Director of the Center for Globa...

A few months ago, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) released the final official development assistance (ODA) data for 2018. Development Initiatives created a useful fact sheet analysis of the 29 donor governments’ aid spending for 2018, including how much of their bilateral ODA went to projects that aim to primarily or partially target gender inequality...

By George Ingram, Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution.

Publish What You Fund, the global campaign for aid transparency, tomorrow releases its seventh Aid Transparency Index. The Brookings Institution and Friends of Publish What You Fund are joining Publish What You Fund in a public release of the 2020 Index report, along with a brief on how U.S. government agencies f...

This opinion piece first appeared in Devex on 31st March 2020. For the full version of the article please click here.

As the world grapples to learn as quickly as possible about COVID-19 and its impacts on people, there’s one very clear trend emerging: Gender matters.
 

Men in China were more likely to die of the virus, likely due to higher smoking rates. The amount of domestic violence reported by women sharply increased, d...

The Challenges of Comparing IATI and OECD-DAC Data

We’ve just begun a project on transparency in humanitarian emergencies. The project very much focuses on data use needs amongst local and international actors on the frontlines of humanitarian emergencies. In the next few weeks we’ll embark on field trips to better understand the reality on the ground, but in the run up to our trips we took a look at the data available thro...

This blog was written by Sally Paxton and the Brookings Institution’s George Ingram. It first appeared on the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network website.

Over the last almost ten years, the US has made a series of commitments to improve the publication of its aid data.  Behind this effort is the concept that increases in transparency and availability of US data will lead to better planning, accountability, and effective...