Addis Ababa, 9 October 2014 (WIC) – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the most transparent development organization, according to a leading global ranking released today.
According to a press release UNDP Ethiopia sent to WIC, The 2014 Aid Transparency Index recognized UNDP for its “commendable performance” in publishing information beyond international standards this year, placing it first overall out of 68 major agencies evaluated worldwide.
“UNDP should be congratulated for making significant improvements to the quality of its publication,” said Publish What You Fund, a non-profit organization that advocates and measures transparency.
More than 280 countries, UN agencies, multilateral banks and NGOs use the IATI standard, and more than 20 recipient countries have endorsed the initiative.
As an original IATI signatory, UNDP began publishing to global standards in 2011. Since then, it has consistently met and even surpassed international transparency standards, operating an innovative portal (open.undp.org) that details more than 10,000 of its development projects across 177 countries and territories, and publishes over US$5.8 billion in project data.