[open-development] The MDGs, Obama, and aid transparency

Tue Aug 17 19:56:26 UTC 2010

  The MDGs, Obama, and aid transparency

*Hi All, for those of you left in London, please do come and join us for a
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Karin

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*From:* open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Karin Christiansen
*Sent:* 17 August 2010 2:15 PM
*To:* open-development at lists.okfn.org
*Subject:* [open-development] The MDGs, Obama, and aid transparency

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*MESSAGE FROM KARIN*

First I'd like to introduce you to Jenny
Ross<http://publishwhatyoufund.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ed69ef02e1bafb8d4f43b1fa&id=a4834e164d&e=c62a864d1b>who
has joined us as Deputy Director, also heading up our advocacy and
communications activities. Secondly, if you're free tomorrow evening (18th
August), please come and join the new and improved team for a *summer drink
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* in London Bridge from 6pm onwards. Feel free to bring guests.

Following the 7th July IATI Steering Committee meeting, a second round of
letters<http://publishwhatyoufund.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ed69ef02e1bafb8d4f43b1fa&id=1c19be6283&e=c62a864d1b>
were
sent by the CSO members of the International Aid Transparency Initiative
(IATI) Steering
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to
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We urge them to continue their *commitment to developing a global aid
transparency standard*. We have already received a number of
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.

Another major development this month was the announcement of the U.S.* *“aid
transparency initiative<http://publishwhatyoufund.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ed69ef02e1bafb8d4f43b1fa&id=eaf799741a&e=c62a864d1b>”,
as part of the U.S. strategy for reaching the
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We hope this promise will be followed soon by a timeline for delivering the
policy paper to implement it, and more details of the piloting process.

*NEWS THIS MONTH *

The lack of transparency in the draft *UN MDG Outcome Document* prompted us
to join Article
19<http://publishwhatyoufund.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ed69ef02e1bafb8d4f43b1fa&id=75a072a8e9&e=c62a864d1b>
and
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to Staur
and Badji, UN Representatives for Denmark and Senegal respectively.

We also joined over 200 organisations and prominent individuals in
signing<http://publishwhatyoufund.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ed69ef02e1bafb8d4f43b1fa&id=eca302bf82&e=c62a864d1b>an
open
*letter to President Obama *as part of
MFAN<http://publishwhatyoufund.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ed69ef02e1bafb8d4f43b1fa&id=9e4f2c4ec5&e=c62a864d1b>’s
“Reform within Reach” campaign. The
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asks
President Obama to develop a Global Development Strategy and rewrite the
U.S. Foreign Assistance Act.

The *Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs* has put all its development
cooperation activities in an online
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both Estonian and English.

The *Liberian Minister of Finance*, Augustine Ngafuan, made the case for the
necessity of aid
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at
an aid management conference where he spoke about accountability, increasing
recipient ownership, and aligning aid to a country’s needs.

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