Aid transparency: Italy among the least transparent in the UE

The CONCORD 4th edition of the Aidwatch report includes the first transparency ranking of the EU 27 official development cooperation. Increased transparency is considered a vital item for aid effectiveness and it is an international commitment signed in 2008. The European NGOs respectively ranked its official development policies according to a fixed set of transparency criteria. In this first ranking, Italy resulted 6th last EU donors, scoring just a little better than Greece, Latvia, Bulgaria, Slovak and Slovenia. This poor performance is due to the dearth of information publicly available and linguistic barrier preventing from access citizens in partner countries.