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Pop Goes The Weasel: DfID's muscle
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Tuesday, 14 June 2011. According to this FOI response. I received from DfID, from next financial year NGOs which are funded through a Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA). Will be required to publish information about DfID-funded projects in line with IATI standards. The requirement to publish data in the IATI standard by 2012/13 forms part of the Memorandum of Understanding between DfID and the organisations (para 19). According to the accompanying letter:. A few days ago:. View ...
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Pop Goes The Weasel: ICO update
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Tuesday, 4 January 2011. Just heard from the Information Commissioner's Office on their handling of my Freedom of Information complaint. The officer handling the complaint emailed me:. Although I cannot specifically indicate when the investigation would be completed, I should point out that we are aiming to close all freedom information cases which were created before April 2010 by the end of March 2011. Your complaint was processed on 24 February 2010.". Subscribe to this blog.
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Pop Goes The Weasel: Déjà vu all over again
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Monday, 2 August 2010. Déjà vu all over again. I asked 8 large international development charities to provide a detailed breakdown of their spending that year. None were able to. In July 2010 I repeated the exercise with the same charities to see if anything has improved. It hasn't. Directed to Annual Report. Directed to Annual Report. Directed to Annual Report. Directed to Annual Report. Directed to Annual Report. Directed to Annual Report. Directed to Annual Report. So it seems tha...
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Pop Goes The Weasel
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Saturday, 21 August 2010. Share your failures on FAILfaire. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog. Read more about me here: http:/ andeggs.me. View my complete profile. Center for Global Development. From Poverty to Power. Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS. One World Trust Blog. Private Sector Development Blog. Rick on the Road. The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency. Working Group on Open Knowledge in Development.
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Pop Goes The Weasel: Quibbling
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Tuesday, 28 September 2010. Last week NPC published an excellent report. Calling for charities to be more willing to publish evidence of their impact. The researchers write:. The report analyses the annual reports of 20 large charities (including Salvation Army) and shows how they largely fail to communicate the difference they have made to people's lives (their outcomes) - even though most are good at describing what they do (their outputs). But the mistake of this approach is to be...
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Pop Goes The Weasel: New ICO update
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Monday, 18 April 2011. Another update from the ICO on my FOI request. Don't hold your breath! The draft decision is now with the designated signatory awaiting the final review before it is issued. We are nearly there now and hopefully a decision will be made fairly soon. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to this blog. Read more about me here: http:/ andeggs.me. View my complete profile. Center for Global Development. From Poverty to Power. Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS.
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Pop Goes The Weasel: September 2007
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Wednesday, 19 September 2007. Why can't Oxfam be open and transparent about where our money goes? Moreover, why can't Oxfam live up to its own rhetoric? Here is an example of the organisation's commitment regarding transparency and accountability, from its own Annual Report:. Annual Report 2005-06, p. 25 and p. 26). Oxfam is signatory to several standards as well, including the ImpAct Coalition. The INGO Accountability Charter. And the Paris Declaration. Makes a good point: "Charitie...
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Pop Goes The Weasel
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Sunday, 31 July 2011. In response to the Information Commissioner's decision notice. About my FOI request for information in DfID's ARIES database, DfID sent me a CD with this Excel file. It contains internal performance scores for about 2,800 projects conducted by DfID. Most of the scores were recorded either as part of a project's annual review or when a project finished. The dataset also contains information on projects which have had their funding suspended, information about the...
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Pop Goes The Weasel: Information wants to be free
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Monday, 30 August 2010. Information wants to be free. Oxfam has broken ranks. In response to my formal complaint. That the NGO was breaching its 'Open Information Policy', Oxfam have sent me the details of every overseas project they funded in 2009-10. They admitted there had "been a breakdown in our internal communications" and that the information should have been made available immediately. Thanks to Joss Saunders (Company Secretary) for doing the right thing! See the chart here.
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Pop Goes The Weasel: Decision time
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Pop Goes The Weasel. Saturday, 25 June 2011. Yesterday I received the Decision Notice from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about my FOI request for the project information in DfID's ARIES database. Almost 2 years after I originally made the request, the ICO has found partly in my favour. DfID must publish 64 fields relating to the 8,000 projects in the database. However, 6 of the fields - those which contain comments. According to the letter (which will be published on the ICO's website.
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