By Toby McIntosh The World Bank is denying access to documents about its reviews of contracts using Bank funds, and to the contracts themselves. The…
Publish What You Fund on Nov. 3 issued a DFI Transparency Tool listing 52 categories for the evaluation of transparency at development finance institutions (DFIs).…
By Toby McIntosh The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank fails to disclose adequate information about its projects, particularly about their environmental and social consequences, according to…
By Toby McIntosh Many critical “transparency” issues are unresolved in advance of the COP26 climate crisis summit in Glasgow. The most controversial issues include: What…
By Toby McIntosh Although many intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have adopted access to information policies, many have not, and the policies that do exist are proving…
Tracking decision-making at the World Trade Organization, never easy, got harder this year. The chairs of three major negotiations have opted not disclose “draft texts”…
The International Maritime Organization has adopted a policy on access to information with exceptions that likely will prevent disclosure of documents about policies under consideration,…
Development finance institutions provide very little information about investments they make through private sector financial institutions, according to a detailed comparison done by Publish What…
Six major philanthropies funding international projects to promote transparency and accountability have released a database of the projects they are supporting. The assembled list of…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank was slow to respond when Tanzania proposed, in 2018, to set criminal penalties for critics of official statistics, according…