Why Congress Should Care About the International Aid Transparency Initiative
Congress needs to understand that the dashboard and IATI are the tools it has been searching for. Members continuously complain about the opaqueness of foreign assistance – how much assistance is the...
View ArticleForeign Assistance Dashboard Adds Treasury and Defense Data
Five US agencies that have a role in US foreign aid now have some—but not all—data on the Foreign Assistance Dashboard. These five agencies accounted for roughly eighty-six percent of aid spending in...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Poe, Rubio Bills Would Strengthen Foreign Assistance...
The bipartisan legislation would strengthen U.S. development programs that are critical levers of influence in an increasingly complex world by directing U.S. agencies involved in foreign assistance to...
View ArticleUSAID Adds Financial Transaction Data to Dashboard
The information that has recently been posted is referred to as “financial transaction data”—data regarding disbursements including vendors, locations, award titles, etc. While all USAID data...
View ArticleWhat We’re Hoping To See In The Next Release Of USAID Data
There are other improvements USAID could make. These range from the seemingly nitpicky but actually crucial (like making sure that unique identifiers for organizations are present, consistent and...
View ArticleMCC Named Most Transparent Donor in 2013 Aid Transparency Index
U.S. progress in terms of making data available is notable—and the State Department announced this week that the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) joined State, DOD, USAID, MCC, and Treasury...
View ArticleMFAN Statement: Rubio-Cardin Foreign Aid Transparency Bill Moves Forward in...
MFAN applauds the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for unanimously approving the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2013 (S. 1271) introduced by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ben...
View ArticleIncentivizing Transparency
Please see below for a guest post from MFAN’s Accountability Working Group Co-Chairs, Diana Ohlbaum and Lori Rowley. Ohlbaum is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Websites
Please see below for a guest post from MFAN’s Accountability Working Group Co-Chairs, Diana Ohlbaum and Lori Rowley. Ohlbaum is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
View ArticleRoot, root, root….for transparency
See below for a post by MFAN Co-Chairs George Ingram, Carolyn Miles, and Connie Veillette. *** We at MFAN have been eagerly anticipating the beginning of October. Not just because of playoff baseball...
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