{"id":971,"date":"2011-02-26T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=971"},"modified":"2011-02-25T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T01:53:30","slug":"owen-barder-on-aid-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/971","title":{"rendered":"Owen Barder on Aid Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aid transparency is a topic I know all too little about. Thanfully, Owen Barder &#8212; whom I had the pleasure of meeting at a tweetup in Washington, DC last month &#8212; has just written a <a title=\"Eight Lessons from Three Years Working on Transparency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owen.org\/blog\/4433\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> discussing the eight lessons he has learned from working on aid transparency over the past three years.These eight lessons are:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To make a difference, transparency has to be citizen-centred not donor-centred.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s ways of publishing information serve the needs of the powerful, not citizens.<\/li>\n<li>People in developing countries want transparency of execution not just allocation.<\/li>\n<li>Show, don\u2019t tell.<\/li>\n<li>Transparency of aid execution will drive out waste, bureaucracy and corruption.<\/li>\n<li>Social accountability could be Development 3.0.<\/li>\n<li>The burden of proof should be on those who advocate secrecy.<\/li>\n<li>Give citizens of developing countries the benefit of the doubt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have purposely omitted Owen&#8217;s explanation below each point so that readers click on the link above and read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid transparency is a topic I know all too little about. Thanfully, Owen Barder &#8212; whom I had the pleasure of meeting at a tweetup<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/971\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Owen Barder on Aid Transparency<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-policy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-fF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}