Avoiding Groundhog Day on US Foreign Assistance
President Trump will soon send Congress his budget for FY 2020, including his proposed spending levels for US foreign assistance. In his...
Setting the Gold Standard for Transparency: The Opportunity for the New US Development Finance Agenc
In a rare example of agreement from Capitol Hill to the White House to the development community, the Better Utilization of Investments...
Accessing Aid Information through the User’s Lens
In the aid transparency arena, one of the most frequently raised issues concerns data use. Why has there not been more uptake of data...
How to consolidate the two US foreign assistance dashboards
For the last several years, US foreign assistance data has been published on two official US government websites: ForeignAssistance.gov...
Tracking Private Finance to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals
This post was written by Sally Paxton, the US Representative for Publish What You Fund, and George Ingram, Senior fellow at the Brookings...
How better aid transparency will help tackle global development challenges
This post was written by George Ingram, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund....
George Ingram delivers testimony to Senate based on our USFA research
George Ingram, Board Chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund, has delivered testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on State, Foreign...
US foreign aid transparency: How to fix dueling dashboards
This blog was written by Sally Paxton, our US representative, and George Ingram, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Chair of...
Assessing the Impact of President Trump’s Foreign Assistance Budget
In fiscal year 2018, President Trump proposed some significant cuts – around 33% — to the US foreign assistance budget. For the most...
US foreign assistance – putting the data to work
As some of you might know, we’re working on an exciting new project about US foreign assistance. The first thing we’ve been doing is...