ANALYSIS

Sweden ranks fourth out of 49 bilaterals. For the 20 indicators which it scores for publishing to IATI, these are comprehensive for all Swedish government agencies that have been allocated ODA funds. Sweden leads on commitment indicators within the good category of donors and performs well on organisation planning and activity classification and basic information. Although Sweden does publish documents in its activity files, these were not correctly coded and thus could not be taken into account for the 2013 Index (this appears to have been fixed since data collection ended).

Sweden performs poorly on performance data; the only results data available is currently in PDFs. Of the indicators that take format into account, over three quarters are published in machine-readable formats. However, this does not include information on planned dates or planned expenditure. Sweden made several improvements to its IATI organisation file in July 2013 but it still does not include forward-looking budgets for recipient countries or country-specific strategy papers.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Sweden should continue to improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields, in line with its ambitious implementation schedule.
• It should also complete its pilot of the IATI budget identifier and share lessons with the IATI community.
• Sweden should update its OGP National Action Plan to include more stretching commitments to implement IATI fully.

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