What happens to aid money?
DAKAR, 23 September 2008 (IRIN) – Tired of navigating the often-secretive donor funding world, a group of international non-profits have launched the “Publish What You Fund” (PWYF) campaign to encourage donors to reveal timely and accessible information about how they are spending their money.
The group launched the campaign on 1 September at the Accra aid effectiveness forum, and include freedom of information organisations Access Info and Tiri, and NGOs such as Data/ONE, the UK Aid Network and Actionaid.
Donors are encouraged to adopt PWYFs donor transparency principles, which commits them, among other things, to sharing timely information about their giving.
Twin initiative
The UK governments Department for International Development (DFID) alongside 13 other donors, including the World Bank and European Commission, has also launched the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), which pledges to develop a format that donors can use to publicise their spending by the end of 2009.
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