ANALYSIS

Italy scores 10%, placing it in the very poor category. It ranks 42^nd out of 49 bilateral organisations. It performs poorly both at the organisation and activity level. It publishes its organisation strategy, allocation and procurement policies but does not publish country strategy papers or forward-looking budgets, scoring no points for organisation-level financial information. Only basic information on activities funded by the MFA is available on its website. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, none are published in machine-readable formats. It does not score on 27 of the 39 indicators. The MFA did not respond to requests for feedback during the Index data collection process.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Italy should join IATI and aim to begin publishing to the IATI standard in 2014. It should update its common standard implementation schedule by early 2014, to include plans for full implementation of IATI by the end of 2015.
• The MFA should make information on its aid activities available through the government’s open data portal.
• Italy should update its OGP National Action Plan to include commitments to aid transparency and implementing IATI.

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