The Global Transparency Initiative (2005-2013) was a consortium of nongovernmental organizations that effectively pushed international financial institutions toward greater transparency.
Probably the most consequential GTI creation was a model disclosure policy, the Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions.
The Charter, announced in 2006, was used to evaluate disclosure policy proposals at international financial institutions.
The GTI led civil society lobbying about access to information policies at the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other organizations. For example, see GTI’s 2005 GTI comment to the EIB, a 2007 guide titled Transparency at the IMF, a 2007 Model World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information, and a 2011 analysis sent to the ADB.
Many articles about GTI activities remain posted on Freedominfo.org, although that website, like GTI, was unable to obtain continued funding. Unfortunately, the GTI website is no longer online and many of the Freedominfo.org links to GTI documents are nonfunctional.
Saved materials from ifitransparency.org, the GTI website, can be found on The Wayback Machine.