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Deconstructing IATI, DADCoP 2014

Deconstructing IATI, DADCoP 2014. Supporting local CSOs implement the standard By Steve Kenei. 22 nd Jan 2014. Who are we? Short story. Global Humanitarian Assistance. Budget Analysis. Investments To End Poverty. AidInfo. AidInfo. Recap .

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Deconstructing IATI, DADCoP 2014

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  1. Deconstructing IATI, DADCoP 2014 Supporting local CSOs implement the standard By Steve Kenei 22nd Jan 2014

  2. Who are we? Short story

  3. Global Humanitarian Assistance

  4. Budget Analysis

  5. Investments To End Poverty

  6. AidInfo

  7. AidInfo

  8. Recap Objective : End chronic poverty by 2030 through access to better information on resource allocation How? Providing thorough analysis on how money is spent Work on building capacity for organisations on analytical and reporting skills Forge forward towards a common open transparency standard We believe in working with technology to influence policy

  9. What’s DI’s role in IATI?

  10. IATI: Breaking down the standard Multi stake-holder initiative Improvement of aid transparency Publishers include government agencies, multi-laterals, local and international NGOs, dev finance institutions and even the private sector

  11. IATI: Under the hood XML based open standard for reporting High degree of technicality Is combination of two standards; Organisation Standard Activity Standard

  12. The Organisation Standard Who is reporting? Donor, recipient etc Forward planning budgets (including period and value) Reporting agency, recipient agency and countries Links to organisation documents Annual reports, published results etc

  13. Activity Standard More complex (has about 60 entry fields) Activity can be classified as a project, programme, contract etc Contains transactional data Sectoral classifications Geographic data Activity level documentation links Outputs, impact and results

  14. Transactions

  15. Visualising an Activity

  16. Publication Data belongs to the publishing organisation It is published and stored with the originator with links to the IATI registry API’s are issued to 3rd party application developers to develop visualisation tools

  17. The registry

  18. What it looks like on the registry

  19. What it looks like to you

  20. Day to day...

  21. Local CSO outreach & support • Started late last year • Girls Education Challenge fund – entry point • The GEC has about 15 grantees in the region • Stakeholder scoping in Kenya and Uganda

  22. Training methodology • Understanding the benefits of transparency • Going through case studies of first time publishers to understand challenges likely to be faced • Do internal feasibility studies to fathom difficulties likely to arise and how to overcome them

  23. Training methodology • Review of the standard • What to publish • Implementation schedule • Publishing tools

  24. Implementation Schedule

  25. Publishing tools

  26. CSV conversion tool • For use with large data sets • User converts system generated .xls files into .csv files • Automated conversion of .csv into .xml • .xml published onto registry

  27. CSV conversion tool

  28. Web entry platform: AIDSTREAM • Secure, online project management software developed by partners in Open Nepal project • Free and open source • A user-friendly way of easily capturing and publishing data

  29. AIDSTREAM

  30. In action

  31. Story so far • One publisher in Kenya so far (ICL Africa) • One to begin implementation by end of January • More than 15 local African CSOs publishing • Continued support for local CSOs publishing

  32. Way forward • Further scoping and identification of stakeholders • Continued outreach to local CSOs • Developing a localised training manual • Identify new entry points from development partners • Learn from DAD/UNDP; shift implementation perception from being donor lead to CSO/Country lead • Working on unification of reporting standards

  33. Thank you very much Steve Kenei

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