Pledge Tracker

The problem

Governments, development banks and foundations announce pledges in public: amounts, recipients and dates. What arrives later is reported in different documents, in different formats, often years apart. Almost no one lines the two up pledge by pledge, so a shortfall is rarely noticed until the people who were relying on the money feel it.

Why it is ignored

No single body owns the comparison. Donors report what they gave, recipients report what they received, and the conference that announced the pledge has moved on. Tracking it takes patient, source-by-source work that no one is paid to do.

What we record

• Who pledged, to whom, for what purpose
• The amount and currency, in the pledger's words
• The promised time frame, turned into a deadline
• Every disbursement found, with its date and source
• The share delivered by the deadline, and how late the rest ran

Sources and evidence

• Official pledging-conference outcome documents and donor government releases (grade A)
• Public aid-transparency data published by donors and development banks (grade A)
• Recipient government budget and receipt reports (grade A)
• The pledging organisation's own announcements (grade B)

Every source is graded by fixed rules, linked, dated and fingerprinted, exactly as on the company record.

How outcomes are decided

Met when the pledged amount was disbursed by the deadline; Partly met with the share delivered; Late when it arrived after the deadline. A pledge with no disbursement record is shown as No record found, never as failure, until a source shows it did not arrive.