Evaluating aid transparency - Executive Summary Summary

Evaluating aid transparency Executive Summary Jonathan Glennie with Keri Culver, Samuel Bekoe, Adiba Khaled and Charles Sokile January 2021 Summary This evaluation found that, while some aid information is significantly more transparent than it was a decade ago and aid transparency remains high on the agenda of the aid community, it is hard to demonstrate the real-life impacts of efforts to make a. [...] This is an important piece in the aid transparency puzzle and has been the overwhelming focus of aid There is poor information on results. [...] All this means that aid agencies are doing enough to ‘tick the box’ on aid transparency, without always putting RETHINKING THE THEORY in the effort necessary to see that the data are used by recipient countries to improve aid effectiveness. [...] The pressure on development spending is mounting as know about it, cannot access it, and do not understand it, or if the the impact of COVID-19 and the associated economic crisis takes detail in the data is not what you were looking for, then how helpful is hold, potentially reducing the availability of resources and increasing ‘transparency’? the demand for results. [...] An IATI with impact The IATI focus has narrowed the utility of transparency to the IATI has played a crucial role in aid transparency so far.