By Toby McIntosh A unique international effort to shed more light on the debt owed by developing nations has faltered. The strategy was dependent on…
By Toby McIntosh The three-person external appeals board that decides appeals concerning the World Bank’s access to information policy has issued several pro-transparency decisions this…
By Toby McIntosh A staff review of the Disclosure and Access to Information Policy (DAI) at the African Development Bank provides a substantially positive overview…
By Toby McIntosh The African Development Bank is reviewing its policy on disclosure of information, according to AfDB officials. The implementation review is being conducted…
By Toby McIntosh The scores earned by some countries on UNESCO’s 2021 survey about access to information include some eyebrow-raising results. UNESCO chose not to…
By Toby McIntosh Finding endangered plants and animals for sale online remains easy. So three major nonprofit groups tried something new to combat illegal wildlife…
Many countries with access to information (ATI) laws lack recent data on the number of requests they received, according a new UNESCO survey. Out of…
The United States has pledged to make public all of its position papers submitted for the upcoming international meetings on aviation and climate change and…
By Toby McIntosh Two upcoming summits. Same pro-democracy cause. But very different strategies: one flashy, one determinedly plodding. First comes the Summit for Democracy (Dec.…
The COP26 summit in Glasgow made headway on a number of transparency-related initiatives, agreeing on time frames for future national pledges and largely nailing down…