Alex Tilley

Head of Research @aidtransparency. Aid transparency, development, human rights, environment, Latin America.

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Good coverage of the Aid Transparency Index report and the importance of food aid in this article: https://t.co/NQZfHasdsg

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Join us tomorrow for the launch of the #2024Index. We’ll unveil the ranking of the world’s major aid agencies & discuss #aiddata, impact & the #SDGs

https://t.co/ypHgAzkez4

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Next week is the launch of the 2024 Aid Transparency Index where we unveil the ranking of the world’s major aid agencies. Otto Reichner @wfp talks about #datatransparency at the World Food Programme & their experience of being assessed in the Index for the first time.
#2024Index

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The Aid Transparency Index incentivises 50 of the largest aid organisations to regularly publish high-quality @IATI_aid data.

Ahead of the launch of the #2024Index @alexjtilley asks how we can encourage others to publish data:
https://t.co/J1QJ2F1rbe

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🗞️ Check out our latest newsletter, featuring the launch of new proposals to improve mobilisation transparency, reflections on how we encourage greater publishing of @IATI_aid data, & some highlights of how aid data is currently used in practice:

https://t.co/Idxs7az5Ui

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How can the @IATI_aid community have the biggest impact on #AidTransparency?

@alexjtilley looks at who is currently publishing IATI data and considers the pros and cons of supporting all aid organisations to publish data, versus just the largest

https://t.co/J1QJ2F1rbe

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How can we improve the way we measure private capital mobilization? And how do we get more transparency?

🗓️Join us & @CGDev on 16 April with representatives from @USTreasury @ODI_Global @IFC_org @FCDOGovUK & #GFANZ

Register: https://t.co/NZ3n8uwHxa
#MDBs #DFIs #Mobilisation

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📢We’re delighted to announce that @alkags is our new chair. With expertise in open data and citizen engagement, Al will provide great strategic leadership for the next phase of our work.

Read more here:
https://t.co/EeaEHc2KO9

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An innovative use of @IATI_aid data to show which aid funded health and education projects have been damaged or destroyed in Gaza. And @OECD data showing the decline in aid to Palestine over the past decade compared to overall aid flows…

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Read more in our report now online: https://t.co/43ux7PtDLs

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Global media outlets have covered Israel’s catastrophic attacks on hospitals and schools in Gaza - but not the aid flows that connect taxpayers around the world to these places now damaged or destroyed

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NEW: West disproportionately cut aid for Palestine in the DECADE before the current war, @theijsc analysis shows.

Overall global aid flows rose by almost 70% from 2013-2022 – but (under the radar until now), those to Palestine FELL by 10%. Some donors cut even more... 🧵

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How did aid and development transparency fare in 2023?

Here we roundup what we’ve been doing over the last year, the progress that’s been made and where we’re pressing for change:

https://t.co/oTbzrcfok2

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I’m on a mission to get you to read more fiction.

Here are 10 of my favorite ideas – all from fiction:

1. Frank Herbert, Dune

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Here's a link to the research: https://t.co/USmN2H8Iro

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Nice to see my climate finance tracking research referenced in this @TAInitiative consultation paper: https://t.co/oUF9uE9oX8

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@otaylor9426 @aidtransparency Looks great! Yes looking forward to getting into the detail next week

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🇬🇧12-14% of the UK’s bilateral aid goes to the private sector.
But what do we know about these companies and how and where they spend the money?
New analysis by @alexjtilley examines the UK’s top private contractor @AdamSmithInt

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#AidTransparency #GlobalDev #UKAid

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We recommend private aid contractors should meet international standards for aid transparency as they are channelling taxpayer funds with a mandate to benefit citizens in low-income countries.

See the full analysis here:
https://t.co/ebTrUoQpss
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📢Private aid contractors handle billions of dollars of aid money, yet the largest players are almost completely untransparent.
New analysis by @alexjtilley examines the transparency of the largest contractors of the US and UK and struggles to follow the money.
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