Eye on Global Transparency has collected information on how to request documents from 21 international institutions, primarily international financial institutions and UN bodies. bit.ly/4qJhKQ0

The European Investment Bank failed to adequately justify its reasons for denying access to annual reports on whether is complying with best banking practices, according to the EIB’s internal watchdog, the Complaints Mechanism. See more: wp.me/p9BenY-2nC

The IMF has reached an agreement with Ghana on a national governance and anticorruption agenda. (Yet unpublished) Negotiations on a governance diagnostic assessment with Pakistan hit snags. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-2fx

The World Bank is determined to keep secret key reports about ongoing projects, aide memoires. An interpretation of a footnote aims at the goal. But it may conflict with pro-transparency decisions of the independent appeals board on access policy. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-2dp

The IMF will use “sharpened claws” to achieve debt transparency, an official says. Senegal may be first scratching post. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-20N

A evaluation says IATI, a huge database on international aid, has missed its goals, is facing insolvency and needs a major reset. Read more here: wp.me/p9BenY-1Zo

There’s not much #transparency about the number of international investment disputes that are financed by third-parties. EYE has learned that 16 percent recent cases have such backing at the leading arbitration body. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-1XT

New disclosures about higher sovereign debt in Senegal suggest that efforts to encourage transparency were insufficient. Read more here: wp.me/p9BenY-1UG

Ensuring quality aid data endangered by possible demise of system to rank donor transparency. Read More: wp.me/p9BenY-1SR.

UNEP decision narrows scope of access policy; limits information on methane emissions. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-1Sm

This post is both about a controversial contract, for "GEMs" data on investment in the developing world, and about how hard it is to get documents from an international agency, the EIB. Like almost 2 years. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-1S0 So, yea, kind of specialized, but that's my transparency niche.

Wildlife trafficking online may be rising, but takedowns of IWT postings by social media companies seem to be diminishing. Read wp.me/p9BenY-1Q3 @brianbanks.bsky.social @bigearthdata.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social @orchiddelirium.bsky.social

Are social media companies doing enough to combat illegal wildlife trafficking? Numbers from new report suggest they are blocking fewer postings. Read more: wp.me/p9BenY-1Q3 @gretchenpeters.bsky.social @sarahdurant.bsky.social‬‬ @alexverbeek.bsky.social @bigearthdata.bsky.social

New data suggests that social media companies are blocking fewer listings for illegal wildlife sales. wp.me/p9BenY-1Q3

OpenSecrets is the latest in a series of open-government groups to decline or die off over the last decade—a trend that bodes ill for the health of our politics. @americalabs.org counts the bodies, and looks at revival methods:

UN methane program reports tiny response by countries after being notified about large methane emissions. Will the UN finally start making the notifications public? wp.me/p9BenY-1LR

Nice to see some additional disclosures at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. wp.me/p9BenY-1LF

This excellent article includes a section (2) on why climate finance accounting in not consistent or transparent.

Disclosure of key data could encourage more lending to developing countries. Steps forward being made, but more is possible. See report from World Bank/IMF fall meetings. Follow me for other news on transparency at international institutions. wp.me/p9BenY-1KG

My inaugural post here celebrates how journalists around the world use freedom of information laws to find information for their stories. Read about it in my blog: Eye on Global Transparency. wp.me/p9BenY-1JY