I came away from Busan feeling a bit queasy. Not because of the week-long jet lag and lack of sleep, or because Busan has been desperately disappointing for aid effectiveness. It has not, although it remains to be seen whether it will be remembered as the last whimper of the aid effectiveness agenda or the

Ahead of the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in South Korea this week, we asked you to send messages of support to Secretary Clinton to make bold commitments on transparent and accountable aid. And as part of the ONE Act a Week, almost 100 of you responded! In this PDF you can read the

The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness drew to a close on 1 December, with the Korean hosts able to celebrate the delivery of a new global partnership on effective development cooperation. Emerging powers including China and India have endorsed the document, a document that makes clear in its second paragraph that commitments that

Sara Messer reports live from Busan, South Korea The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness isn’t even finished yet, but we can already log big wins for transparent and accountable aid. In Secretary Clinton’s keynote address at the forum in South Korea, she officially announced that the United States would be signing the International

This week in Busan, South Korea, decisions will be made that have an impact on millions of people’s lives. Guest blogger Timo Lappalainen of KEPA, a Finnish international development organization, explains why now is not the time for concessions on aid effectiveness. At the Fourth OECD High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, donors and developing

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is both a global voluntary initiative and a common standard for publishing aid information that aims to make it “easier to access, use and understand.” It was formed following the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action as a way to implement those commitments made by donors in Accra on aid

ONE has big asks ahead of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-IV) in Busan, South Korea, starting on November 29th. Making donors accountable for where their development assistance goes through increased transparency will improve the effectiveness of aid across the board, or in this case –- across the chalkboard. In February 2011,

Publish What You Fund (PWYF) — the global campaign for aid transparency — has recently launched their pilot project: the Aid Transparency Index. By tracking aid information that has been published by 58 bilateral donors and multilateral organizations, PWYF has ranked them based on their level of aid transparency. And here’s what it said: Source:

Action: 21. Time: 5 minutes. Level of difficulty: Easy. In less than two weeks, government leaders, NGOs heads and even private sector representatives will be meeting in Busan, South Korea to discuss how to make aid and other development resources more effective. Why should you care? Because better aid means better accountability to recipients and

Guest post from Publish What You Fund’s Claudia Elliot. In the relative obscurity of closed-door meetings, donor governments are making last-minute attempts to renege on their aid transparency commitments. With only two weeks to go before the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, time is running…

In 2009, the G8 met in L’Aquila, Italy and pledged $22 billion in aid towards agriculture and food security. Perhaps more importantly, they also pledged to align their aid with the Rome Principles, a set of qualitative commitments meant to achieve better outcomes and sustainability in food security. As a result, donors created the Global

As negotiations heat up ahead of the Fourth High Level Forum on aid effectiveness (HLF-IV), many countries are keen to move beyond a narrow aid effectiveness agenda, bringing in a broader range of actors and issues in recognition of the changing development landscape. Emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil are becoming ever more

At ONE we spend a lot of time and effort making sure that citizens in developing countries get the resources they need to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease. We hold wealthy governments to account for commitments they made to increase development assistance, and we fight cuts to foreign aid—like in the US where it

When you hear stories about increasing agricultural investment, what does this mean to you? To me, it can mean one of many things. It could mean investing money in improving agricultural inputs such as giving farmers high-quality seeds or suitable fertilizers that will increase crop yield. It can refer to providing education on farming techniques