ANALYSIS

DG Enlargement scores 48.1%, placing it in the fair category. It is among the biggest improvers in the 2013 Index. Although DG Enlargement ranks lowest amongst the EC departments, it performs better than many big bilateral donors such as Germany, Japan and USAID. It performs best on organisation planning but work remains to be done on activity-level financial information and on performance data (for which it does not score any points). Of the indicators measured by format, over two thirds are published in machine-readable formats. It does not score on some important indicators such as activity overall cost, actual dates, sub-national location, results and conditions. Overall, it does not score on 13 of the 39 indicators included in the Index.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• DG Enlargement should improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields – including structured performance data, information on activity costs and location and links to project documents. It should also produce a more complete organisation file, including forward budgets and country strategy papers. Its IATI files should be refreshed on at least a quarterly basis.
• DG Enlargement should actively support the publication to IATI by other EC departments managing Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) and promote aid transparency and open data among EU pre-accession countries.
• The EC should actively 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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