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Keynote Address
Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
Presentation of the 2016 Aid Transparency Index Findings
Rupert Simons, CEO, Publish What You Fund
Panel Discussion
Charles Kenny, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Michael O'Neill, Assistant Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
Nancy Lee, Deputy CEO, Millenium Challenge Corporation
Jeremiah Sam, Programme Coordinator, PenPlusBytes, Ghana
Every major donor organization has committed to open their books in terms of how aid is being spent and delivered. The deadline for delivering on these political commitments was December 2015. This joint CGD and Publish What You Fund event will reveal who has delivered on these promises and who has not, with the unveiling of the results of Publish What You Fund’s 2016 Aid Transparency Index, the leading global measure on the state of aid transparency.
Development benefits from transparency. It helps developing country officials make difficult decisions about where to invest scarce resources; it allows local NGOs – and connected citizens – to track the actual delivery of outcomes and hold decision makers to account; and it shows rich-country taxpayers whether their money is being well spent. How will performance on transparency, or lack thereof, impact global calls for a ‘data revolution’ in support of the new Sustainable Development Goals?
A keynote address from UNDP Administrator Helen Clark will be followed by a short presentation of the Aid Transparency Index results and a panel discussion with expert participants who bring global perspectives on how to improve transparency in development.
The discussion will include questions from the floor and be live-streamed for those who cannot attend in person.
