5.
Asian Development Bank
Very good
OVERVIEW
The AsDB should be congratulated on the progress made on improving the transparency of its aid information since 2013. Its IATI publication has been expanded to include 13 additional information fields including project documents and sub-national location data; it has updated its implementation schedule to include plans to publish to 91% of the assessed IATI fields by the end 2015; and included an open licence in its Project Records Database. In July 2014, the AsDB partnered with OGP to support transparency, accountability and participation efforts in Asia. The ADB’s support will focus on exploring opportunities to provide technical and financial assistance to help countries meet OGP eligibility criteria and to develop and implement OGP action plans.
ANALYSIS
The AsDB scores 83.8%, an increase of 26 percentage points since 2013, making it one of the biggest improvers in the 2014 ATI. It ranks fifth overall and third out of 17 multilateral organisations. It performs well at both the organisation and activity level. It scores 100% for organisation financial information; over 90% on organisation planning, basic activity and classification information; and 80% on performance information (results, conditions and impact appraisal). It performs less well on the provision of financial data for individual activities, with the lowest score among organisations in the very good category on this sub-group of indicators. This is because it does not publish forward-looking activity budgets or the budget identifier – which aims to help align information on development flows with recipient country budget classifications – in its IATI files. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, 20 are published in machine-readable formats. Overall, the AsDB scores on 37 of the 39 indicators.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- The AsDB should include data on results and conditions, forward-looking activity budgets and links to tenders and contracts for all its activities in its IATI files.
- It should use its IATI data in its programming and coordination processes and promote the access and use of this information by others.
- The AsDB should work with IATI to develop specific guidance for IFIs and share best practice on publishing to the IATI Standard.
DONOR PROFILE
First published to IATI:
Nov-11
2013 ATI Score:
57.64%
2013 ATI Rank:
10