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Make Aid Transparent

Mobilising to make aid transparent

8 June 2011 in Access to information, Accountability, Anti-corruption movement, Poverty and development

How much money are donors giving to Liberia, Peru and Sri Lanka? It sounds like a simple question and one that should have a quick answer – but it does not. Donors have pledged in international agreements to provide such information by making their aid more open and effective, but most have failed to fulfill […]

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TI Chair Huguette Labelle with Chilean President Sebastian Piñera

TI Chair Huguette Labelle speaks about building transparency

28 April 2011 in Access to information, Americas, Anti-corruption movement

TI Chair Huguette Labelle was in Chile this week to gave the keynote speech at an international seminar on “Transparency as Modernization of the State” (the video is first in Spanish, then in English).

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Speed-dating EU transparency: EU Parliament hearing on access to EU documents

15 April 2011 in Access to information, European Union

European Parliament (flickr) / Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 Sitting in Wednesday’s EU Parliament hearing on the topic of access to EU documents and freedom of information felt a little like policy speed dating. 15 external speakers and more short interventions from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) – although embarrisingly few MEPs were present in the […]

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A step forward for access to information in Guatemala

20 August 2010 in Access to information, ALAC, Americas

The Guatemalan Constitutional Court rules that the data on beneficiaries of a large-scale social programme should be publicly available, setting an important precedent for access to information requests by civil society in the country. David Gaitán, of TI’s national chapter in Guatemala Acción Ciudadana, writes about how this decision came about. In early August of […]

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