ANALYSIS

Estonia scores 23.6%, placing it in the poor category. It ranks 19^th out of 49 bilateral organisations. Information on Estonian development cooperation is available through a projects database which provides basic activity information. In addition to basic activity information, Estonia performs relatively well on planning information at the organisation level and the provision of project documents, for which it posts scores that are consistent with the Index average. It lags on organisation and activity financial information and performance data, particularly the latter for which it does not score any points. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, over one third are published in machine-readable formats. Estonia does not score on 18 of the 39 indicators.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Estonia should join IATI and begin publishing to the IATI standard in 2014 so it can aim towards compliance by the end of 2015. It should produce an ambitious implementation schedule by early 2014 that aims to fully implement the IATI standard by the end of 2015.
• It should update its OGP National Action Plan to include commitments to aid transparency and implementing IATI.
• Estonia should engage in the EU-13 project for enhancing ODA reporting capacity and systems to ensure it includes the full IATI standard.

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