ANALYSIS

Australia scores 43.1%, placing it in the fair category. Athough Australia is an IATI publisher, there is a clear need for improvement in the quality of its IATI data. It is the seventh lowest scoring IATI publisher amongst bilateral organisations (ahead of only the UK FCO, U.S. Department of Defense, Irish Aid, Finland, U.S. Department of State and Spain). Australia performs well on organisation planning and basic activity information for which it posts scores that are above the average for the fair category. Australia scores less well on activity financial information and the inclusion of links to its activity documents in its IATI data. Some activity documents appear to be available on AusAID’s website, suggesting that they could also be published through its IATI feed.

RECOMMENDATIONS

•  AusAID should improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields. It should update its implementation schedule by early 2014 so it is more ambitious, aiming for full implementation of the IATI standard and monthly publication by the end of 2015.
• AusAID should work with other Australian aid-spending departments to publish to IATI and to promote access and use of Australian aid information via an open data portal.
• Australia should produce an OGP National Action Plan to include stretching commitments on implementing IATI.

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