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    How the Aid Transparency Index rose from the dead

    After a seeming cancellation, the Publish What You Fund project has rejiggered its funding model.

    By David Ainsworth // 17 June 2025

    The Aid Transparency Index is back, and it’s got a new business model.

    The index, which has been published every two years since 2012, tracks the transparency of funders, using data published via the International Aid Transparency Initiative, or IATI, standard.

    It looked to have been canceled for 2026, after its publishers, United Kingdom-based nonprofit Publish What You Fund, announced they had not been able to secure funding.

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      David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.

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