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“My CEO will tear off my head, if I suggest to him that we implement IATI.”

17 January 2013 in Access to information

This text was crossposted from the Open Knowledge Foundation’s blog Open Aid. The author is Claudia Schwegmann. These were the precise words of a senior policy person of a big German NGO when I presented IATI some 18 months ago. In the past, reactions of other NGO representatives have been less drastic but still very clearly […]

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Making Aid Accountable: Starting with You

28 October 2011 in Accountability, Aid

Craig Fagan, Senior Policy Coordinator at Transparency International, highlights some of the main initiatives and campaigns to make aid more transparent ahead of the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in South Korea.   Transparency is the trigger for change; accountability offers the mechanism to make it. This reality applies to a range of […]

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