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The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a global campaign to create transparency in the records of how aid money is spent. The initiative hopes to thereby ensure that aid money reaches its intended recipients. The ultimate goal is to improve standards of living worldwide and globally reduce poverty.〔(United Kingdom Department for International Development press release about IATI launch, 4 September, 2008. Accessed 15 October, 2008. )〕 ==History== The initiative was launched on September 4, 2008, at a High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Accra, Ghana. The goal of the forum was to refocus attention worldwide on the steps needed to reach the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. It was presented by the United Kingdom's Secretary of International Development Douglas Alexander; along with Kemal Dervis, Head of the United Nations Development Programme; James Musconi, the Rwandan finance minister; and Kumi Naidoo, then president of CIVICUS.〔(Programme for the Launch of the International Aid Transparency Initiative )〕 Mr. Alexander recommended creating a common set of openness standards by which donors can be judged. 14 international donors pledged to expand transparency as a result, and an agreement was reached to develop a common format for the release of aid information by 2010.〔(Development Gateway Foundation article, accessed 15 October 2008 )〕 A statement was issued by the signatories, which formally accepted the policies set forth in the (Accra Agenda for Action ) and agreed to form the IATI. The text of the statement suggests that aid donors should:
The statement was agreed to by a variety of international donors, including the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Irish Aid, the World Bank, the UK's Department for International Development, the United Nations Development Program, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. After a period of widespread engagement of donors, governments and NGOs and consultation on the information to be shared, and how it should be shared, the IATI Standard was agreed on 9 February 2011 in Paris. At the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held in Busan, Korea in November 2011, the Initiative received continued support. In the run up to the forum, over 19 donors, including 12 government and multilateral donors, and a number of small NGOs, started publishing information on their aid projects using the IATI Standard (). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Aid Transparency Initiative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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