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The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) was launched in 2008 at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra. Its purpose is to publish standardised data on development aid, so that citizens, parliamentarians, NGOs and other stakeholders can hold donors and recipient organisations to account and monitor the provision of services.

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Dear friends: 

In 2008 Germany signed the International Aid Transparency Initiative(IATI)- a commitment of donors to provide timely, detailed, standardised data on development cooperation in an open and accessible way. The objective of IATI is to provide enable citizens in donor countries and particularly in recipient countries to hold donors and recipient countries to account for aid monies and to facilitate better planning of aid by recipient countries. Ultimately the purpose of IATI is to enhance aid effectiveness, curb corruption and promote ownership of all stakeholders.

Dear Friends, some thoughs on aid effectiveness, transparency and advocacy, originally published in Atlantic Community:

It is not the lack of knowledge that hampers development aid, but the structure of incentives within the aid system. Aid transparency and civil society engagement are key levers for addressing these problems and improving aid effectiveness.