IATI report ‘Powering Transparency’ highlights need for data
Aid and development cooperation is under pressure worldwide. This is a good time to highlight once more how open data has been helpful – and will be even more helpful in future – in getting the right aid where it is most needed, and informing taxpayers in donor countries how budgets are spent.
This is what the international Secretariat of IATI has done with the newly published report ‘Powering Transparency’, in which the Netherlands is featured prominently. Freek Kessels, the Director Financial and Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands, wrote in his foreword how we all need transparency: the MFA itself, the citizens of donor countries, and the citizens of the countries we hope to support. All of us need to know where activities are happening, who is collaborating with who, and what has happened there in the past. IATI provides the insights we need to get humanitarian aid and development cooperation to the right people.