ANALYSIS

OTA is one of the biggest improvers in the 2013 Index. It performs well on activity classifications, basic information and organisation financial information. Work remains to be done on activity financial data, the provision of project-related documents, and performance data, especially on results and impact appraisals. OTA’s publication in IATI XML does not currently include actual dates, actual expenditure or planned expenditure or links to activity documents such as budgets, contracts, evaluations, MoUs, objectives and tenders. Much of this information is not published systematically, even on OTA’s website. At the organisation level, links to documents such as allocation policy, annual report, country strategy, organisation strategy and procurement policy are also missing from the current publication even though some of these documents are published on OTA’s website. Treasury (OTA) is one of only two U.S. agencies to publish forward-looking organisation budgets and planned dates in IATI XML.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• OTA’s IATI XML information should be posted to the IATI Registry.
• Treasury should ensure all information for its international programmes (debt relief, multilaterals and technical assistance) is consistently published to IATI.
• In subsequent publications, OTA’s data should include all fields of the IATI standard, including performance data and links to activity and organisation-level documents.

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