Transparency

This is a joint-post with Will McKitterick. Earlier this week, we received big news on the transparency front. The Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic foundation in the aid business, made the bold decision to publish its aid information to the International Aid Transparency Initiative. ...

US aid agencies are on an open data roll this month. On Monday, we applauded Treasury’s release of technical assistance program data in Excel and International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) formats. Yesterday, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) released more tha...