The Trust, Accountability, and Inclusion (TAI) Collaborative has embarked on a new initiative to bolster support for transparency, participation, accountability, equity, and inclusion in fiscal policy, with a specific focus on budget spending, taxation, and sovereign debt.

This is the second of two blogs reflecting on conversations I had during my trip to Brazil, attending the 7th International Colloquium on Traditional People and Communities – Springtime of the Peoples towards COP30.

This is the first of two blogs reflecting on those conversations held at the 7th International Colloquium on Traditional People and Communities. This first one is focused on learnings for trust-based accountable grantmaking.

Michael Jarvis explores the growing focus on corporate accountability.

On the surface, international funding for governance areas increased significantly from 2021 to 2022: from over $26 billion to over $37 billion. But we've gone deeper into these numbers, and now you can also unpack the trends yourself in our latest funding data dashboard.

The development sector has been too slow to invest in the healthy news media and “information ecosystems” on which healthy societies depend. Nick Benequista (Center for International Media Assistance), Laure-Hélène Piron (The Policy Practice), and Cristina Ordóñez (Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative) say new OECD principles on supporting media integrity should be a prompt to act in the face of growing manipulation and suppression.