Funding: The British-based Indigo Trust describes its support for tech driven transparency projects in African countries and ponders future directions in a blog post by William Perrin.
Canada: Canadian Journalists for Free Expression launch a survey on desired reforms improve the Access to Information Act.
Nepal: “A newly published report has busted the myth that leading aid agencies working in the country are transparent about their activities and financial resource allocations. The report titled ´A Pilot Study on Situation of Aid Transparency in Nepal´ published by Freedom Forum states that transparency level as claimed by donor agencies was not found in practice, although senior management team at those agencies had good knowledge of aid transparency and accountability.”
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