ANALYSIS

BMZ and KfW should be congratulated for beginning publication to IATI in March 2013. KfW data was included in BMZ’s first publication to IATI in March 2013, although the implementation schedule noted that initial publication would be partial. In mid-2013, KfW started publishing project-level information on its transparency portal – transparenz.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de – which it plans to update on a monthly basis through an automated process. This is a positive step towards accessibility.

BMZ-KfW scores 43.7%. It ranks 11^th out of 49 bilateral organisations. KfW is the only German agency with an online project database and the only one that publishes some results information in project descriptions, but not systematically for all projects. It is the only German agency not to score on the audit indicator. KfW performs well on activity financial information. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, just under two thirds are published in machine-readable formats. It does not score on 12 of the 39 indicators.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• BMZ should work with KfW to improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields – especially links to activity-related documents, performance data and forward-looking budget data – and include all of KfW’s development cooperation.
• BMZ should update its implementation schedule by early 2014 so it is more ambitious, including the entire IATI standard for KfW by the end of 2015. It should also move towards more frequent publication.

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