Having high quality, accessible and useful information about what is being spent where, by whom, and with what results is fundamental to making aid more effective. It also makes it more accountable to taxpayers in donor countries and citizens in countries receiving aid. Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index monitors the transparency of donors’ aid and development finance activities and encourages them to improve their levels of transparency. We are now gearing up for the 2018 Index, set to be launched next June. We will begin to collect and monitor data from 45 donor agencies on 1st December 2017 and continue until 9th March 2018. As before, we will also engage with donors and indep
We have recently launched a new project which will combine open aid data with in-country research to assess the impact of potential changes to the US foreign assistance budget. Our first step has been to look into a range of sources of US foreign assistance data. There are a number of different platforms, so below we have listed some of the better known sources for this data, along with our thoughts on their pros and cons based on our recent experience of using them. USAID’s Foreign Aid Explorer The Foreign Aid Explorer (FAE) is a useful source of data on how and where the US is disbursing its foreign assistance. Users can quickly see where funds are going as either obligations or disbursem
