Transparency: 100 aid agencies publish spending data
皇冠体育app International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) welcomed its one-hundredth publisher of aid data spending today.
皇冠体育app International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) welcomed its hundredth publisher today, with UN Women joining the open data drive.
皇冠体育app UN agency joins 99 other aid organisations that are making information about what they spend, and where they spend it, publicly available and easier to use.
皇冠体育app - which aims to make information about aid spending easier to find, use and compare - was launched by the UK and other donors in 2009 to provide a global standard for publishing aid data.
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皇冠体育app initiative brings together donors, partner countries, charities and many more to agree common standards for releasing aid data, making it easier to track what aid is being used for and what it is achieving on the ground.
皇冠体育app can be found on the IATI registry website.
Secretary of State for International Development said:
IATI鈥檚 launch in 2009 marked a step-change in the global transparency agenda, from political and public commitment to firm action taken. And today sees IATI going from strength to strength.
Congratulations must go to the 35 IATI signatories and 100 publishers to date.
皇冠体育app IATI family has shown that when organisations commit to being more open and accountable, they become more than the sum of their parts.
But there is still much more to do - both in terms of increasing the number of publishers and improving data quality. I urge all organisations, big or small, to publish their information to IATI. Only then can development activities be truly effective, efficient and accountable.
皇冠体育app UK was the first donor to publish aid data to IATI standards in 2011.
This latest milestone also comes a month after the Department for International Development was .
皇冠体育app index - - ranks 72 aid organisations across the world, from country donors to private foundations.
In addition to topping the table, the department鈥檚 new sets out how it will work to release as much of its data online as possible.
Transparency is critical to improving the effectiveness and value for money of aid. Making information about aid spending easier to access, understand and use means that UK taxpayers and citizens in poor countries can more easily hold Britain and recipient governments to account for using aid money wisely.