International Grant Making and the IATI Standard
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The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Development Initiatives And friends …. Hewlett Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Foundation Center Grantsfire
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Presentation from Wednesday 17th March, Breakout Session on International Grant Making and the IATI Standard, at the 2010 Grant Manager's Network Annual Conference, Baltimore.
Transcript of International Grant Making and the IATI Standard
The International AidTransparency Initiative
(IATI)
Development InitiativesAnd friends ….
Hewlett FoundationBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Foundation CenterGrantsfire
A division of labour
My part: Why are we doing this? What is IATI trying to do? What does it have to do with
foundations?
Your part: Does this make sense? Advantages for foundations? Challenges, and how to overcome
them? Might your foundation participate?
After the tsunami in Aceh
“In February, in Riga (close to Calang) we had a case of measles, a little girl. Immediately, all epidemiologists of Banda Aceh came in, because they were afraid of a propagation of measles among displaced people, but the little girl recovered very fast. Then, we realized that this was not a normal case of measles and we discovered that this girl has received the same vaccine three times, from three different organizations. The measles symptoms were a result of the three vaccines she received.” El Pais (April 13, 2005, p. A2).
Transparency of resources for poverty
1. Enable feedback (“social accountability”)
2. Reduce administration, overlap and waste
3. Reduce corruption, track money4. Effective decision-making and execution 5. Predictable spending, coordinated
programmes6. Identify need7. Learn what works8. Better institutions and “social contract”9. Build support for foreign assistance
DAC CRS
AIMS
FTS
Donor budgets
and accounts
Line Ministries
Sectoralworking groups
Journalists & Researchers
AIDA, PLAID, TRAID, Donor
Atlas, etc
30 Embassy or
Delegation websites
DonorwebsiteDonor
websiteDonorwebsite45 Donorwebsites45 Donor
websites
Systems are producer rather than user oriented
Information can be:
• hard to find
• inconsistent
• scattered across multiple sites
• unavailable
Today’s information user
International Aid Transparency Initiative
Agreed in 2008 18 funders, half of global aid Others participating but not formally
committed
Four components: agreement on what will be published; common definitions for sharing information ; a common electronic data format; a “code of conduct”.
On track to agree details during 2010 All resources for poverty in developing
countries
Taxonomy hell
Automaticdata sharing?
Wikitude
Layar
What would this mean?
Modification to MIS Collect & record more data Some difficult questions “Streamlined” reporting:
joined up with Foundation Center, Grantsfire, IRS, OECD DAC, Governments
Easier grant management (?)
Advantages for grantmakers1. Better results
2. Demonstrate impact
3. Learning and feedback
4. Grant management
5. Less duplication
6. Easier collaboration
Challenges1. Publishing more
information
2. Changing systems
3. Embarrassment
4. Privacy
5. Change is hard
Does this make sense?Advantages?Overcome challenges?Participate?Who decides?
Backup slides
Process and next steps
Drafts of what is published and code of conduct already been through consultation process
TAG meeting 22nd/23rd March discusses draft definitions and formats
Steering Committee meeting April 2010 Final agreement on data to be published July
2010 Final agreement on documents to be published
end 2010 Implementation of phase 1 due to start by end
2010 Code of conduct to be agreed by end 2010 Scaling up donor outreach, including through
EU process if possible
“Publish once, use often”
