Germany should honor its commitment to aid transparency - IATI steering committee meeting on July 7th!

Submitted by OpenAid on 22 June, 2010 - 17:37

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.

On the 7th of July the Steering Committee is meeting in Paris to decide on aid transparency standard for donors, which is will be a crucial in determining the success or failure of IATI. OpenAid is signatory to an open letter to Dirk Niebel and other ministers of donor countries urging him to follow up on Germany's commitment to aid transparency. We ask Minister Niebel to provide strong leadership on this issue and ensure that IATI becomes an important step in improviding aid effectiveness.

Please find the openletter under www.openaid.de/news

More information about IATI is available here: http://www.aidtransparency.net/

If your organisation wants to encourage aid transparency, please send your organisation's logo to FFederico Pirziobiroli at Publishwhatyoufund until tomorrow evening (wednesday 23rd of June 2010): federico.pirziobiroli_at_publishwhatyoufund_dot_org

Thanks a lot / Vielen Dank!

Claudia Schwegmann
OpenAid

Post new comment

Your name: *

E-mail: *

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Homepage:

Subject:

Comment: *

Input format

Filtered HTML

Use [fn]...[/fn] (or <fn>...</fn>) to insert automatically numbered footnotes.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. (Better URL filter.)
Image links with 'rel="lightbox"' in the <a> tag will appear in a Lightbox when clicked on.
Links to HTML content with 'rel="lightframe"' in the <a> tag will appear in a Lightbox when clicked on.
Links to video content with 'rel="lightvideo"' in the <a> tag will appear in a Lightbox when clicked on.
Use [toc list: ol; title: Table of Contents; minlevel: 2; maxlevel: 3; attachments: yes;] to insert a mediawiki style collapsible table of contents. All the arguments are optional.
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

Comments

Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. (Better URL filter.)

More information about formatting options

Notify me when new comments are posted

All comments

Replies to my comment

Post new comment

User login