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LONDON, 16 November 2011 (IRIN): When nations gather in Busan, South Korea, for the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness from 29. November to 1. December, transparency will be up for discussion.
A study by campaign group “Publish What You Fund” finds that most international aid donors are still not open enough about their aid programmes, and some offer no information at all.
The aid watchdog checked on whether donors publish information about their budgets, their allocation and procurement policies, or audit reports on their own performance.
And what about their country programmes? Did they publish their strategies, projected budgets, evaluations and results?
The activities donors funded were also looked at more closely – could outsiders find out about the projects, what they were doing, how they were funded, and details of tenders, contracts and impact assessments?
The study ranks 58 aid-giving countries and organizations according to their openness about 37 aspects of their aid programmes.
Previous Forum meetings started examining the issue, and the International Aid Transparency Initiative was launched in Accra, Ghana, in 2008. Some donors have made improvements.
How well did they do?
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