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What is IATI?

Global aid transparency standard: progress, challenges and benefits prepared by Bill Anderson and Danila Boneva, IATI Secretariat 21st of June 2011. What is IATI?.

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What is IATI?

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  1. Global aid transparency standard: progress, challenges and benefitsprepared by Bill Anderson and Danila Boneva, IATI Secretariat21st of June 2011

  2. What is IATI? • IATI is a partnership between traditional and new donors, partner countries and CSOs – 19 signatories, 20 partner country endorsers and a coalition of NGOs/CSOs →http://www.aidtransparency.net/whos-involved • Established in 2008 at the Accra High-Level Forum • The goal is to provide access to more detailed and timely information on aid and other official flows in a common format (open data) www.aidtransparency.net

  3. Where are we today? • Agreement on the IATI standard: February 2011 after 2 years of multi-stakeholder consultations • DFID, Hewlett Foundation and the World Bank are the first implementers. Other signatories will follow in the lead up to HLF4 in Busan. • Implementation tests with partner countries to import IATI data in their Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS) for better planning, budgeting and accountability. www.aidtransparency.net

  4. 2010 Transparency Assessment by Publish What You Fund www.aidtransparency.net

  5. Publishing IATI: The road to Busan http://www.aidtransparency.net/implementation www.aidtransparency.net

  6. IATI’s value added (1): 1. Greater accessibility – the IATI approach has the potential to make it easier to find and use data on aid flows and link to other relevant data 2. Timeliness of data 3. Forward-looking data 4. Greater coverage – IATI is relevant for a diverse set of aid providers 5. Greater alignment & flexibility – IATI provides more detailed information on activities and provides flexibility (e.g. # of sector classifications that can be used) that enables greater alignment with partner country systems www.aidtransparency.net

  7. IATI’s value added (2): 6. Traceability of aid flows 7. Sub-national geographic data 8. Multiple sector codes 9. Includes documents 10. Re-use – an open data approach with standardized format that enables multiplicity of uses and reuse of data and software and the standard can be used and extended for other data-related initiatives www.aidtransparency.net

  8. Meeting promises www.aidtransparency.net

  9. Meeting the standard www.aidtransparency.net

  10. The pragmatic approach … www.aidtransparency.net

  11. … only if Accra commitments are kept www.aidtransparency.net

  12. What is the IATI Standard? http://iatistandard.org/ A four-part standard for publishing aid information: • Scope of what will be published • Common definitions for sharing information • Framework for implementation • Common electronic data format (XML) www.aidtransparency.net

  13. Status Quo at country level: Manual Data Exchange • Donor keys data into their own management system. • Donor prints report from their system. • Donor keys data into the government’s AIMS or Excel spreadsheet or • Donor keys data into spreadsheet and sends to ministry. Ministry keys data into AIMS www.aidtransparency.net

  14. What is IATI proposing instead? Automatic Data Exchange Donor keys data into AIMS Donor publishes in IATI xml format on their own website. Country system downloads and imports data. Ministry and country donor staff access data in country system to check and modify, as well as add any country-specific classifications (e.g. national development plan sectors, budget classifications, development results, etc.) www.aidtransparency.net

  15. Malawi AIMS: donor scoring on reporting www.aidtransparency.net

  16. What are the challenges? • Getting signatories and other donors to publish now rather than later even if the information is not perfect • Getting more providers and partner countries on board IATI • NGOs and IATI: who will be the first NGOs to publish? • Developing a standard way of mapping aid information to recipient countries’ budgets • Making the information accessible not only to specialists and users in developed countries, but for users in developing countries • Leveraging transparency to deliver better results and greater accountability

  17. What are the critical next steps for IATI? • Faster progress in implementation of the standard by signatories prior to HLF4 in Busan and thereafter • Widening IATI’s coverage: DAC and non-DAC donors, NGOs • Use of the IATI information by partner countries and other stakeholders at the country level. 2011 IATI pilots. • Preparations and outcome document of HLF4: • Delivering transparency for partner countries, CSOs and citizens • Using the momentum generated by IATI to move forward with firmer, clearer transparency commitments and implementation, especially of those IATI elements, which are critical for partner countries: conditions, results, forward-looking data

  18. Open data gives opportunities for innovation and social accountability ODA in 2009 www.aidtransparency.net

  19. Geo-coding: not only visually appealing, but also useful for sectoral overviews, DoL dialogues and more… Geo-coded projects of the World Bank in the DR Congo: http://www.aiddata.org/currentProjects/drc www.aidtransparency.net

  20. Bill Anderson and Danila Bonevabill.anderson@devinit.orgdanila.boneva@undp.orgwww.aidtransparency.net

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