Following today’s release of the government’s National Action Plan 6, Elma Jenkins of Publish What You Fund and Bond’s Transparency Working Group looks at the commitments made, and what the FCDO and other departments will have to do to honour them.
What is Official Development Assistance (ODA) and why must transparency in ODA remain at the forefront of the UK’s international development work?
After a difficult few years for UK aid advocates, there have recently been signs that FCDO might be on the verge of turning a corner. Here are some of the positives emerging from the FCDO’s annual report 22-23.
Development Initiatives’ (DI) Euan Ritchie explains how donors counted vaccines as Official Development Assistance in 2021, and why the current OECD DAC rules on counting vaccines should change to stop inflating aid. Originally published on the DI website.
At Bond and across the sector, we had a very busy year. Thanks to you, our working groups and many of our allies across the sector and beyond we achieved lots of things this year that we’re proud of. Here are a few of them.
What is the Aid Transparency Index and what does it tell us about the transparency of UK aid? Gary Forster and Elma Jenkins from Publish What You Fund (PWYF) tell us.
G7 Leaders’ Summit in Germany ended last week, with the members reconfirming their shared goal to “make progress towards an equitable world”. But what do the Summit outcomes mean for international development?
The FCDO has released their annual Statistics on International Development, but do they provide any clarity on where the 2020 aid cuts fell and do we have a better idea of what the UK’s humanitarian aid and development priorities are?
Media freedom, the cornerstone of free and democratic societies, is being eroded across the Commonwealth. Attacks on journalists, repressive legislation, and unjustifiable censorship are rampant in too many of its 54 member states.
