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

Agreements

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: danila.boneva@undp.orgTel. +1 212 906 6510Bureau for Development PolicyCapacity Development GroupUNDP, New York

web: www.aidtransparency.net