Push for aid transparency

Foreign aid is a contentious topic, with ever-swirling debates about how to maximize its efficacy. To fully understand and thus improve aid it's necessary to gain as much information as possible about the process. That's why Publish What You Fund has started the Make Aid Transparent campaign (www.makeaidtransparent.org), which calls on governments to make it clear exactly how their foreign assistance funds are being spent. For example, spending on abstinence education programs in sub-Saharan Africa is much less effective than, well, plenty of other things. We have to know where we stand before we call for those 'plenty of other things' to take precedence.


Effort involved: signing a petition. Or spreading the message, as the website has handily provided a 'campaigning and advocacy toolkit'.