London, 1 February 2011,

According to AidInfo.org the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has now released its project data according to the IATI standard. IATI is the international initiative for transparency in aid spending. Its aim is to improve transparency for both donor countries as well as for countries receiving international aid. At the project page of the DFID there are now data downloads in IATI formats.

As AidInfo explains "Publication to the IATI standard will help donors like DFID to fulfil the transparency commitments they made in the Accra Agenda for Action. Importantly, it will meet the demands from stakeholders in partner and donor countries for aid information that is timely, accurate, comprehensive, comparable and forward-looking."

The UK is the first nation in the world to publish its data in IATI standards through the IATI registry. Earlier the USA started releasing international aid data through the website foreignassistance.gov.

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