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...
Countdown to the Aid Transparency Index – Data collection starts in two days!
Having high quality, accessible and useful information about what is being spent where, by whom, and with what results is fundamental to...
US Data on Foreign Assistance: What to know and what to use
We have recently launched a new project which will combine open aid data with in-country research to assess the impact of potential...
International affairs experts reach consensus on how to restructure foreign aid
The Trump administration has demonstrated that there is no better way to galvanize a community and activate energy than with an...
The organisation file: A treasure trove!
How do I answer basic aid flow questions? Which donor is providing aid to a country and what is the future projection of that aid? More...
Redesign Data: Dueling dashboards
The potential redesign of both the State Department and USAID – and their relationship to each other in managing US foreign assistance –...
What we learned about IATI at the Africa Open Data Conference
Last month Ghana hosted the second Africa Open Data Conference (AODC). The event sought to showcase the thriving open data community on...
