One of the four principles that Global Washington identified in its 2009 white paper on global aid effectiveness and highlighted in its 2010 policy paper is “Transparency and Accountability” — information on strategy, goals, and spending [should be] clear and readily available to U.S. taxpayers and international beneficiaries. It turns out that Global Washington is in line with much of the... [Read more]
Posts Tagged ‘transparency’
Foreign Assistance Dashboard- Bringing more transparency to US foreign aid
Following the release of several other federal dashboard information websites earlier this year, the Department of State and USAID have launched the Foreign Assistance Dashboard on December 16, 2010. Like other federal dashboards, the Foreign Assistance Dashboard was created in response to Obama’s Open Government Initiative – for which he signed the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government... [Read more]
New U.S. Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
The Obama administration recently released the U.S. Strategy for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals, a 28-page document that emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and accountability. After a brief recap of progress achieved to date and the serious challenges ahead, the document outlines the three pillars of the U.S. strategy: innovate, sustain, and make it work. According to the strategy,... [Read more]
Secretary Clinton’s Future of Development and Global Washington’s Principles of Aid Effectiveness
source: Foreign Policy magazine Hillary Clinton made a speech on development reform yesterday that is well-covered in the media. You can read commentaries on the speech by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, William Easterly in Foreign Policy Magazine, blogger Chris Blattman, Devex (for the development worker perspective) and others, like this article on how not only are women the solution but... [Read more]
Transparency and Corruption: like Garlic and Vampires
Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) last week. Not surprisingly, some of the biggest recipients of U.S. foreign aid fared poorly in the corruption rankings- countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan. Daniel Kaufmann writes in the Brookings Institute’s blog that it would be misguided to simply pull the plug on aid channeled to corrupt... [Read more]
