Open aid data is great, but it becomes really useful when we are able to use it alongside other data feeds. For instance IATI and other donor open aid data presents granular project level information, but this is still fairly general and aggregated when compared to the rich quantitative and [...]
Transparency may have entered the mainstream in 2013, but did it deliver on its ‘revolutionary’ promise? Zoe Smith looks back at the achievements of the movement this [...]
The Canadian government’s announcement of a new international trade strategy, the Global Markets Action Plan, has garnered predictable criticism and support. Reactions have ranged from fears that Canada should become a wandering salesperson, to great enthusiasm for a long-awaited return to common [...]
Development organizations around the world are energized by the possibility of ending extreme poverty by 2030 thanks to dramatic reductions in global poverty over the last decade. What is getting left out of the discussion is the real lesson of the MDGs: When it comes to highbrow debates about [...]
Canada scores a good grade when it comes to transparency. Recently, Publish What You Fund (UK) released its much anticipated 2013 Aid Transparency Index which ranks countries based on efforts on aid transparency. Among 67 donor organizations ranked by the index, Canada placed 8th and is one of only [...]
Canada needs to play a stronger role in the creation of the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a panel of United Nations and international development experts speaking at the University of Ottawa [...]
The new Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development is an opportunity to elevate the profile of international development in Canadian foreign [...]
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has released their data on foreign aid spending for 2012. Multiple crises are changing the landscape of foreign [...]
At the 2011 Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) held in Busan, South Korea, participants agreed to establish a Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. The Global Partnership replaces the OECD-DAC-hosted Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-EFF) launched in 2003 [...]
As the dust begins to settle, and the budget cuts begin to work through the bureaucratic system, it is time to update our initial analysis on cuts to Canada’s international assistance. [...]
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