ANALYSIS

DG DEVCO scores 52.1%, placing it in the fair category. While it plays a leading role in aid transparency, its relative decline in ranking can be attributed to more comprehensive IATI publication by other organisations, including some first time IATI publishers. It scores only slightly lower than ECHO, primarily because ECHO publishes forward budgets in its IATI files and has an open data portal. DG DEVCO performs well on organisation planning information and on financial and basic information on activities. Like most of the EC, it performs less well on the provision of activity-related documents and performance data.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• DG DEVCO should continue to improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields – including structured performance data and links to project documents.
• DG DEVCO should update its implementation schedule so it is more ambitious with the aim of fully implementing the IATI standard by the end of 2015.
• DG DEVCO should ensure that the EU-13 project for enhancing ODA reporting capacity and systems includes the full IATI standard and enables participating EU Member States to publish to IATI in 2014.
• DG DEVCO should use its IATI data in its programming and coordination processes and promote the use of this information by others via an open data portal.

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