1. How Many Beltway Contractors Does it Take to do a Feasibility Study?
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, transparency, accountability)

... Transparency Act, which was passed in 2006. Under the legislation, as of March 2011 all sub awards over $25,000 must be reported to a centralized system.  ...

2. Op-Ed: Haiti's Fight for Transparency
(Matching tags: usaid, chemonics, transparency, accountability, local procurement)

... of transparency: to which organizations USAID gave funds.  USAID factsheets reveal that close to 100 percent of humanitarian funds for Haiti were channeled through NGOs, U.N. agencies or right back to ...

3. Lack of Data Prevents Measurement of Aid Effectiveness, Impact
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, transparency, accountability, data)

Yesterday, Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz of the Center for Global Development provided a nice overview of the U.S government’s review of its Haiti earthquake response. Ramachandran and Walz found ...

4. A Review of the U.S. Government’s Review of Its Haiti Quake Response
(Matching tags: usaid, ngos, transparency)

This guest post is cross-posted from the Center for Global Development. By Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz Last week, USAID finally published an evaluation report on its activities in Haiti: “Independent ...

5. Evaluation of Donor Response to Haiti Earthquake Shows "Building Back Better" Nothing But a Slogan
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, shelter, reconstruction, haitian government, haitian ngos, transparency, aid coordination, donors, cholera, housing)

For the previous five years an independent organization, DARA, has been publishing the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI). The DARA website explains the HRI as “the world’s only independent tool for measuring ...

6. Local Purchases of Rice as Food Aid Overstated
(Matching tags: usaid, france, us rice, food aid, rice policy, transparency, rice)

In addition to the problems of allocating food aid discussed in the previous post, another significant problem is the lack of local procurement, which can be more effective than importing in emergency ...

7. Bill Clinton: 40,000 May Die in Rainy Season
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, transparency)

The AP reports on a speech Bill Clinton gave to aid organizations working in Haiti. Clinton issued a stark warning; if urgent efforts are not made to relocate those displaced, up to 40,000 may die during ...