ANALYSIS

The AfDB scores 63.7%, placing it in the good category. It performs well on planning data at the organisation level and on activity classifications. Work remains to be done on organisation-level financial data, activity-level financial and performance data and the provision of links to activity documents. Overall, it is the highest scoring IFI and regional development bank. Of the seven IFIs included in 2013,[1] the AfDB is one of only two that publish information on sub-national location and the only one to publish it in its IATI data. Of the indicators that take format into account, over two thirds are published by the AfDB in machine-readable formats. However, its IATI publication does not include some important fields such as dates, overall activity cost, results and disaggregated budgets.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• The AfDB should improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields – including forward-looking budget data, planned and actual project dates, overall activity costs, structured performance data and links to project documents.
• It should aim to improve its frequency to publishing on a monthly basis.
• The AfDB should work with IATI to develop specific guidance and an extension to the IATI standard for IFIs and DFIs.

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