What we fund

When TAI started in 2010, there was no established transparency and accountability field. The number and capacity of organizations working on these issues has grown fast, many with support from TAI members. Today, our members support a broad range of organizations at global and local level that work at the intersection of rights and transparency, participation, and accountability to advance more just, equal, inclusive, open, and green societies.

What does TAI funding look like?

ADVOCATES partnering with communities and other stakeholders to ensure tax and budget policies realize rights and reduce inequalities

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZERS working with indigenous groups to document the plunder of their lands and assert their rights in the courts.

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS uncovering dodgy deals that favor the politically connected.

RESEARCHERS proving the value of inclusive participatory processes in shaping government policy.

TECHNOLOGISTS guiding civil society groups to use data from multiple sources to back up their policy asks.

THINK TANKS pinpointing government revenues lost due to loopholes in international tax agreements.

ADVOCATES partnering with communities to monitor and fight for the maternal health services they were promised and deserve

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZERS working with indigenous groups to document the plunder of their lands and assert their rights in the courts.

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS uncovering dodgy deals that favor the politically connected.

RESEARCHERS proving the value of inclusive participatory processes in shaping government policy.

TECHNOLOGISTS guiding civil society groups to use data from multiple sources to back up their policy asks.

THINK TANKS pinpointing government revenues lost due to loopholes in international tax agreements.

Funding Data Library

Funding Data Library

You can explore data related to over $500 million in active transparency and accountability grants in TAI’s member funding database.

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Why it matters

TPA Full Disclosure Introducing the people behind funding and practice in the world of transparency, participation, and accountability.

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TPA Full Disclosure: Katharine Knox on movement-building in the TPA (transparency, participation, and accountability) sector
Katharine Knox leads the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)’s Power and Accountability Programme where she works to strengthening democratic and corporate accountability, encourage responsible media, and support work that responds to the dual harms of the Covid-19 pandemic and systemic racism. Prior to that, she spent years researching, advocating, and leading climate justice programs.
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TPA Full Disclosure: Accountability Initiative on building capacity towards responsive government
We spoke with Avani Kapur (Director of AI) and Avantika Shrivastava (Assistant Director Communications at AI) to explain how AI is driving evidence-based research on state capabilities and public service delivery and insights along the way
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TPA Full Disclosure: The Podcast! Diakhoumba Gassama on the third African Philanthropy Conference.
We are thrilled to introduce our brand new "TPA Full Disclosure: The Podcast" with Diakhoumba Gassama, Programme Officer, Gender and Inclusive Governance at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Gassama reflects on key issues around the third African
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Pathways to change

This represents critical causal pathways common to TAI donor members’ theories of change. It is in no way a representation of pathways to change for the Transparency, Participation and Accountability field as a whole.

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What is the evidence that providing information or data produced by (inter)national bodies influences or enables accountability actors within the government to monitor government performance, sanction or reward performance, and manage expectations of citizens (and government) of their duties, responsibilities, and performance standards?

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What is the evidence that providing information or data produced by (inter)national bodies influences or enables accountability actors outside the government to monitor government performance, sanction or reward performance, and manage expectations of citizens (and government) of their duties, responsibilities, and performance standards?

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How do governments officials directly use information or data that is produced by (inter)national without going through any other accountability actors. (ex: ministries making data open/available and instating a FOI mechanism directly as result of the Open Government Partnership?).

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What is the evidence that information or data is used by accountability actors inside the government (e.g. judges, parliamentarians, anti-corruption agencies, etc.) to hold government officials (includes elected, technocrats, front line service providers) accountable through sanctions or legal action?

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What is the evidence that information or data is used by accountability actors outside the government (e.g. media, journalists, lawyers, CSOs, etc.) to hold government officials (includes elected, technocrats, front line service providers) accountable by monitoring, changing expectations of responsibilities, or scrutinizing performance?

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What is the evidence that providing information or data influences citizens to behave as accountability actors (citizens monitoring, protesting, non-compliance), and do they act as individuals or in collectives? In particular, does citizen behavior include the use of the information itself (e.g. motivating action, clarifying operational steps, used as evidence, etc.)?

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Do citizen accountability actions result in changes in government officials?

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How do citizens exercise their voice as voters?

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Transparency and Accountability Initiative Resources

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9 tips for doing a participatory strategy (Part I)
Last year, the Transparency and Accountability Initiative brought together five practitioners of participatory strategy from international NGOs, nonprofits, and philanthropic funder networks to share their insights into what truly matters when embarking on this journey.
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Ups and downs in governance funding – what the latest ODA numbers can tell us (and what they can’t)
In this blog, we analyze the overall increase by funding modality and designation to COVID-19. We look at which funders increased and decreased funding and what kinds of non-government organizations received the most funding.
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Reports
Mobilizing citizens to investigate corruption and demand government action in Nigeria
This report is part of a series of D4A outputs including a scoping report for Nigeria; landscape reviews for Nigeria and Colombia; notes about donor collaboration in Nigeria and Colombia, and GI’s role as a learning partner; pieces drawing lessons from the work in Nigeria (this report) and Colombia, and a note reflecting on the implications of these findings for future donor investments.
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