USAID takes another forward step on budget transparency
Raj Shah United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Raj Shah announced that the US Foreign Assistance Dashboard was not only updated, but it included 53,000 financial...
View ArticleThe incredible shrinking Gates Foundation annual report
Humanosphere has noted before this trend of the Gates Foundation's shrinking annual report, coming on the heels of last week's announcement that the philanthropy scored 'very poor' when on the 2013 Aid...
View ArticleThink Tanks influence public policy, but who influences them?
Intercambio Climatico In the debate over whether the US should raise the minimum wage, the Employment Policies Institute has emerged as think tank cited in opposition to the increase. The name ‘think...
View ArticleGates Foundation does poor job communicating with outside world
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation does many extraordinary things well, but public transparency and communicating with outsiders are not among them. That’s what the world’s biggest philanthropy...
View ArticleBetter foreign aid starts with re-defining ‘aid,’ says ONE Campaign
African governments and donor countries are not living up to their commitments to invest in health, agriculture and education, finds a report released Monday by the ONE Campaign. A lack of transparency...
View ArticleTop rated charity opens up its real-time data
The charity that allows people to make a direct donation to a person living in Kenya just got a whole lot more transparent. GiveDirectly unveiled a new website with live data showing how it is...
View ArticleWhere’s the beef? U.S. aid lagging on transparency, says report
The United States government made progress on full transparency for its aid spending, but there is still work to be done, says a new report. A review published this week by Publish What You Fund shows...
View ArticleWhy can’t we track money pledged for disaster relief?
When a disaster strikes, the world takes action to help people in need. Relief workers are deployed and pledges are made to finance the effort to save lives. What happens to all of that money? Where is...
View ArticleCorruption flourishes amid ‘pathetic levels of transparency,’ watchdog group...
Transparency is not a well-held ideal among many of the 100 fastest growing international companies based in developing countries. The average level of transparency among the companies fell in the past...
View ArticleIn a region riddled with corruption, Uruguay leads in transparency
While Brazil, Guatemala and other countries across Latin America continue the struggle to end political corruption and spur economic progress, Uruguay has been quietly setting a precedent for what it...
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