From 2011 to 2014 I worked at the ONE Campaign, on transparency, accountability and open data in development.
The ONE blog posts have been recovered from the Internet Archive. 28 pieces, newest first.
Papers
- Transparency and accountability, ONE Campaign two-pager, April 2012
- How Can Donors Promote Budget Transparency and Accountability? The Use of Benchmarks and Incentives for Budget Transparency in Foreign Aid Programs, ONE Campaign + International Budget Partnership, note with Paolo de Renzio, 2013
Blog posts
2014
- A Marginal Revolution? Revitalizing the fight against global poverty · 29 November, alanhudson.info (a longer version of a May 2011 ONE blog post)
- The transparency revolution - happy anniversary? · 23 January
2013
- Leaving loopholes for launderers? · 29 October
- What we want the Open Government Partnership Summit to deliver next week · 24 October
- 7 reasons why David Cameron needs to crack down on phantom firms now · 25 September
- Following the Money? G20 keeps the transparency ball in play but makes only limited gains · 9 September
- Katherine Lay: a transparency star and a much-missed friend · 15 July
- A G8 transparency revolution? Yeah, some. · 18 June
- The G8, transparency and tax: time to change the rules · 17 June
- Cracking down on ‘phantom firms’: the case for public registries · 17 June
- How to start a transparency revolution · 5 June
- Ghostbusting: phantom firms and dodgy deals · 21 March
- Cookie cutters and context: The limits of institutional reform in development · 27 February
- Linking resources to results: A transparency narrative for the G8 · 25 February
- Outraged by horsemeat in your lasagne? Chew on this. · 19 February
2012
- Putting People First in the Post-2015 Development Framework · 31 October
- The Golden Thread Development Narrative: What’s hot, what’s not and how it can be improved · 29 October
- The Risks and Rewards of Development · 1 August
- Sharing success stories: Transparency and accountability for better health outcomes · 18 May
2011
- Beyond aid to open development · 7 December
- Busan: A Bang or a Whimper? · 2 December
- Aid and Beyond: Transparency, accountability and results · 9 November
- Now for Action: Governments make commitments to openness, transparency and accountability · 20 September
- Famine, politics and governance · 4 August
- Opening budgets and governments to turbo-charge accountability · 14 July
- Information is Power: Kenya leads the way on open data · 12 July
- Africa, China and governance: A new colonialism? · 16 June
- Turbo-charging accountability · 23 May
- Aid and beyond: Listening to African priorities · 20 May