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International Aid Transparency Initiative – key recommendations from partner countries
consultations & update
DAD Community of Practice, 5 October 2009
Agenda1. IATI – background & aims2. IATI – who is involved?3. Agreements4. IATI regional partner country consultations
(June – September 2009)5. Key recommendations from the partner
country consultations6. Update on recent developments
IATI – background & aims
1. IATI: Launched at the Accra HLF on Aid Effectiveness in
September 2009 Aims:
Bring together donors, partner countries, CSOs
and aid information experts to agree ways of sharing more and better
information about aid
Commit donors to sharing more
detailed, timely, and up-to-date
information about aid
Agree standards that will make
information easier to understand,
compare and use
Make standards useful to all stakeholders
Build on the standards and definitions that
are already being used
Meet transparency commitments in the Accra Agenda for
Action
IATI – who is involved? Signatories to the 2008 IATI Accra Statement:
Partner Countries that have endorsed IATI:
IATI Structure
Decision-making body; guides the
process
Develops the standards & reports to SC
Coordinates, implements SC
decisions & reports to SC
Partner Country Consultations (1)
Region When Host Country
Participating Governments
Eastern & Southern Africa
29-30 June Rwanda Burundi, Comoros, DRC, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania
Europe & CIS 6-7 July Montenegro
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo 1244 RSC, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Arab States 12-13 August Jordan Algeria, Djibouti, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Syria
Asia & the Pacific 27-28 August Thailand Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Korea (Republic of), Lao, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, PNG, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam
West & Central Africa
8-9 September
Ghana Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, DRC, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Malawi, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo
Latin America & the Caribbean
16-18 September
Dominican Republic
Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Partner Country Consultations (2) Objectives:
Familiarize PC with IATI Determine the priority aid information needs of PC Gather recommendations from PC on the scope of
the IATI standard, the Code of Conduct and the way forward for IATI
Feed the findings and recommendations into the research and standard development work undertaken by the IATI TAG
Define capacity development needs of PC with regard to use of aid information for better planning, budgeting, decision-making & monitoring of aid at the country level
Key findings & recommendations (1) Scope of the IATI Standard:
Timely, up-to-date & reliable information about current & future aid flows
More detailed information about where, when, how, on what & in which sectors aid is spent
Better information on results and the impact of aid Non-statistical information (donor’s strategy, policy,
evaluations, etc.) Better coverage of aid flows: OECD/DAC, non-DAC
donors, multilaterals, NGOs, foundations, global funds Information pertaining to conditions/conditionalities Paris Declaration targets & other commonly agreed
policy indicators (gender, climate change) Contract & procurement details
Key findings & recommendations (2) Code of Conduct:
Key instrument for ensuring transparency & accountability – some regions called for a legally binding document, while others not
Monitorable actions and indicators of compliance Should be flexible & take into account country-
specific needs (e.g. reporting frequency & timeframe)
Independent monitoring of compliance Peer review is insufficient PC should play a key role in any future monitoring
mechanisms
Key findings & recommendations (3) Way forward for IATI:
Ensure that more OECD/DAC and non-DAC donors are signatories to IATI
Strengthen national Aid Information Management Systems (AIMs)
Ensure better representation of PC into IATI Steering Committee & TAG, incl. regional balance
Allow sufficient time for in-country consultations on IATI
Bring the PC outreach up to scale Make a real change in aid transparency and
accountability through better aid information & compliance with the IATI Code of Conduct
Key findings & recommendations (4) Capacity Development Needs of PC:
The aim of CD efforts should be to strengthen country AIMs
Issue of sustainability of AIMs (human & financial resources)
Ensure that staff have the capacity to use aid information for better planning, budgeting , decision-making & monitoring of aid
Adapt aid information to the different needs of various users (ministries of plan/finance, line ministries, parliamentarians, CSOs, citizens)
Strong need for peer (regional and across-the-globe) exchange & learning in the aid information area
Infrastructure needs in some PC
Update: Donor fact-finding missions (WB, UK, Germany and
the Netherlands) and PC pilots (Burkina Faso & Malawi) concluded
Additional PC became members of the IATI Steering Committee on 30 September: Burkina Faso, Colombia, Dominican Republic & Malawi joined Ghana, Nepal, Montenegro, PNG, Rwanda & Viet Nam
First drafts of IATI scope & Code of Conduct will be circulated for comments by PC
IATI Conference in The Hague, 20-21 October: aim is to examine progress & review proposals of the IATI scope & Code of Conduct
IATI Steering Committee meeting on 30 November: scheduled to approve the IATI scope
More information:
Danila BonevaIATI Partner Outreach Coordinatoremail: [email protected]. +1 212 906 6510Bureau for Development PolicyCapacity Development GroupUNDP, New York
web: www.aidtransparency.net