Fwd: Launch of Publish What You Fund's 2012 Aid Transparency Index

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

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From: Catalina Reyes <[hidden email]>
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Subject: Launch of Publish What You Fund's 2012 Aid Transparency Index
To: OGP Civil Society Working Group <[hidden email]>


Dear Colleagues,



Today we’re pleased to be launching the 2012 Aid Transparency Index, a
report ranking 72 donor organisations on their levels of aid
transparency.



The report finds donor transparency is on the rise but continues to
fall short of best practice. This is particularly disappointing at a
time when transparency is critical to ensuring confidence in aid
spending.



The Index looks at 43 indicators of aid transparency at the
organisation, country and activity level. The availability of aid
information was assessed by Publish What You Fund working in
partnership with 35 civil society organisations and in consultation
with donor agencies.

The average score of 41%, compared to 34% in 2011, shows that aid is
becoming more transparent, but progress is slow and uneven. For the
first time, two donors ranked in the top category ‘good’, which
requires a score of over 80%.

The report calls on all donors to sign up to and implement the
International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which provides a
common standard for publishing data and has the potential to transform
the way aid is managed. It urges donors to implement the commitments
they made at the end of last year at the High Level Forum on Aid
Effectiveness to publish timely, comprehensive and comparable
information on aid by 2015.

See how your country performs in the 2012 Aid Transparency Index.

Details of this afternoon’s launch event in D.C. are available here.
You can also follow it on twitter: #2012aidindex.



Best wishes,

Catalina



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Catalina Reyes

Advocacy Officer

T: [phone]

M: 078 0264 9640

US cell: [phone]

Skype: publish.what.you.fund








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Tracey P. Lauriault
Post Doctoral Fellow
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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