We are committed to providing greater transparency to our activities and spending to help the public hold politicians and public bodies to account.
This is in keeping with the aims stated in the Government’s Coalition document. The information will allow readers to make comparisons not only across the public sector in the UK, but also across aid donors around the world.
Transparency is critical to improving the effectiveness and value for money of aid. Making information about aid spending easier to access, understand and use means that UK taxpayers and citizens in poor countries can more easily hold DFID and recipient governments to account for using aid money wisely.
Transparency creates better feedback from beneficiaries to donors and taxpayers, and helps us understand what works and what doesn’t. It also helps reduce waste and the opportunities for fraud and corruption.
This section introduces four main areas where you can find information on what we are doing.
This Strategy outlines our vision on how open data can have an impact on development by enabling people to track aid spending and see the results that are being achieved. It was published in June 2012 along with those of other UK Government Departments under the White Paper on Open Data.
Central government departments are now required to publish data on their spending, including monthly transactional spending, contract and tender documents, and senior civil servants’ pay.
The UK Aid Transparency Guarantee commits us to publishing detailed information about new DFID projects and policies in a way that is comprehensive, accessible, comparable, accurate and timely.
Launched at Accra in 2008, this initiative encourages the international community to sign up to agreed standards on making information accessible and available.
Video: The International Aid Transparency Initiative on Vimeo
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