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Policy Analysis
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Opening Governance to Combat Corruption and Fight Poverty
ONE’s asks of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, Mexico 2012 MORE
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The Open Government Partnership
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a new global initiative through which countries at all points on the spectrum of economic development can share their experience about how to make governance more open, transparent and accountable. MORE
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Natural Resource Governance
Natural resources have the potential to bring wealth and stability to resource-rich developing countries. Too often, corruption and mismanagement of natural resources leads to poverty and conflict. Improving natural resource governance is a crucial first step to ensuring citizens can hold their governments accountable for the oil and mineral wealth that belongs to their country, and to allowing citizens and governments to assess if they are receiving a fair deal for their resources. MORE
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Aid Transparency
High quality development assistance works. Across the globe, investments are providing lifesaving results. Transparency and accountability can help to make sure that aid is as effective as possible. Increased aid transparency and coordination would ensure that scarce aid resources are used efficiently to deliver the biggest impact possible in terms of poverty reduction. MORE
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Budget Transparency
To promote greater transparency and accountability, ONE is working on a number of fronts, pushing for improved natural resource governance, greater transparency about budgets and aid, and encouraging donors to invest more in building the capacity of civil society organizations and other oversight institutions (parliaments, for example) so that they can make use of the information that transparency will unleash, in order to hold governments to account. MORE
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Food. Farming. Future: Breaking the Cycle of Malnutrition and Poverty
50 million people could be locked in extreme poverty and 15 million children could remain chronically malnourished unless world leaders take urgent action to break the cycle of poverty and hunger. MORE
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2012: Fighting for the beginning of the end of AIDS
ONE's updated policy pitch on what it will take to reach the beginning of the end of AIDS by 2015. MORE
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Fact sheet: The fight against oil and mining secrecy
A handy Q&A that takes a closer look at the Cardin-Lugar Amendment and how it will help.
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Canadian Aid: Budgeting for Results
As a leading international donor, Canada provides over CAD$5 billion per year in official development assistance (ODA) to reduce hunger and poverty and improve quality of life for the world’s poorest. Between 2001 and 2010 Canada doubled its spending on foreign aid. From 2004 to 2010, Canada doubled assistance to sub-Saharan Africa (albeit against an adjusted target) by CAD$802 million, to deliver a total of CAD$1.94 billion. MORE