
Assessing Aid Transparency and Methodology Review for Donors
Explore the Aid Transparency Tracker and methodological review focusing on assessing information availability and formats. Learn about testing IATI data quality, publication overviews, and methodologies for tracking aid transparency. Discover key elements of IATI methodology tests and the importance of improving existing formats.
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#2013ATI @aidtransparency ati.publishwhatyoufund.org
Aid Transparency Tracker Assessing the information organisations publish
Methodological review Changed global environment post Busan Need to start monitoring donors more ambitious commitments Criticisms of previous methodology Need for consistency in our asks Deadline of end 2015 for full implementation Extensive consultation with donors, peer reviewers
Overview of methodology Begin assessing whether information is: A) available B) in useful formats Award more points to publishers for providing information in more useful formats
Overview of methodology (2) For each indicator, for each donor: is data available in IATI format? YES test it automatically NO complete a manual survey Allows us to: Test the quality of IATI data if available Include data that s not available through IATI
Overview of IATI methodology For each package for each organisation: Run a series of tests against each activity in each file. Aggregate up for current activities
IATI Methodology: Tests Generally test for the existence of particular elements In a few cases, they go further: Does a title have at least 10 characters? Does a sub-national location have geo- coding? Need to improve some of these in future?
Other formats methodology Assess what data is available on donors websites Ask donors to respond and tell us if we ve missed something
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