Robert Bourgoing

April 2014

Overcoming the Fears of Transparency

Transparency, a great objective in principle, can unleash fear: the fear of losing the support of donors and of damaging working relationships with partners. The natural tendency is to be protective about what filters out to the press, to spin and sometimes to self-censor.

December 2013

Watchdogs or Critical Friends?

Sometimes, holding people and organizations to account needs teeth, especially in young democracies and fragile states with no mutual checks and balances.

May 2013

The Global Fund Should Take Transparency to Another Level

The reality is that using Global Fund data to make recipients accountable is out of reach to most concerned people because they lack access to the Internet, don’t have enough time or technical skills, and experience obstacles to freedom of information and speech.