Devex: Time to make aid transparency actionable, says new campaign chief
“The new CEO of a major aid transparency group says the movement needs to change its ways, and make its data more user-friendly to encourage civil society groups to hold donors to account, during a new strategy launch Wednesday. In July, Gary Forster took over as head of Publish What You Fund, which was established at the 2008 high-level meeting on aid effectiveness in Accra, Ghana, in response to concerns that information about development aid was scarce and difficult to access…” (Edwards, 10/11).