Publish What You Fund campaign finds only quarter of aid meets global transparency standardsOnly a quarter of aid meets transparency standards with most donors failing to honour commitments to open their books,preventing poorer countries from making the best utilize of the funds they receive, a study (pdf) says.
Publish What You Fund, or a global campaign for aid transparency,analysed funds from 46 donors and found that most had failed to uphold commitments made in 2011 in Busan, South Korea, or to publish details of their development projects to a common open standard: the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
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Source: theguardian.com