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…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank has declined to disclose a copy of a contract awarded by Sierra Leone to monitor its Covid-19 spending. Releasing…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank improperly refused to release more than 100 documents, according to a ruling by the Access to Information Appeals Board…
By Toby McIntosh Agendas and meeting summaries provide only limited transparency unless the documents discussed and the agreements reached are also disclosed. This significant relationship…
By Toby McIntosh The International Monetary Fund’s efforts to improve national transparency concerning Covid-19 spending have met with mixed success, according to two evaluations by…
UNESCO has launched a new survey asking governments about their laws on access to information and how they are being implemented. UNESCO is the “custodian…
By Toby McIntosh UNESCO is preparing a new survey that may shed more light on whether government record-keeping systems are adequate to assess the implementation…