The International Aid Transparency Initiative has set out to develop a data standard to increase transparency in international development cooperation and facilitate access to information. In the past year several online consultations have taken place to invite suggests and feedback on which data donors should publish and in which way. Currently the final round of consultation takes place on the IATI consultation page. Read more »
OpenAid believes that aid transparency is a crucial element of better service delivery in development cooperation. Therefore we strongly support the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) that aims to provide accessible, standardised, up-to-date, detailed and open data about development cooperation.
In 2010 we have been able to do numerous presentations about our work on aid transparency, about IATI, about feedback processes and the fight against corruption in development cooperation.
Amongst other things we made presentations for Inwent in Germany, at the Socialbar in Hannover and Berlin and at the DevCom meeting of the OECD-DAC in Helsinki.
For 2011 we want to offer more presentation. While we still plan to do many "real life" presentations, we are also elaborating online presentations for different audiences and on different topics.
- Raising awareness in the German public and the German development community about the aid transparency movement and related issues: ICT4D, e-governance, anti-corruption, aid effectiveness and the open data movement in Germany.
- Following up on the commitment and current activities of the German government and German NGOs on aid transparency.
- Promoting public discourse and pilot initiatives to advance the aid transparency agenda.