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Denmark – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fair
OVERVIEW
The 2014 ATI takes into account information published by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Danida. Danida is the term used for Denmark’s development cooperation, which is an area of activity under the MFA.
As an EU Member State, Denmark is part of the EU’s collective commitment to both the EU Transparency Guarantee and the Busan common standard, of which IATI is a core component. Denmark began publishing to the IATI Standard in January 2013. Since the release if 2013 Index, it has expanded IATI publication to cover several additional information fields, including activity dates, forward-looking total budgets, results and objectives and it has automated its publication process. Its ambitious IATI implementation schedule includes plans to publish 68% of the assessed IATI fields by the end of 2015. In June 2014, Denmark launched a new IATI-driven open data portal which is updated with disbursements and expenditures information on a daily basis. It is a member of OGP and is implementing its second National Action Plan, but this does not include specific comments on aid transparency.
ANALYSIS
Denmark scores 49.6%, placing it in the fair category. It ranks 10th out of 50 bilateral organisations. The relative decline in its overall position in the Index can be attributed to more comprehensive IATI publication by other organisations. Denmark performs well on basic activity and classifications information. It is one of only seven of the 16 organisations in the fair category to score for performance information. Denmark performs less well on organisation-level information, as it has not published an IATI organisation file, although much of this information is available on its website. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, 18 are published in machine-readable formats. Some important fields still missing from Denmark’s IATI publication are scheduled for inclusion by the end of 2015, including links to project documents and sub-national location data.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Denmark should improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and includes forward-looking budgets, links to project documents and sub-national location data. It should also publish an IATI organisation file.
- It should use its IATI data in its programming and coordination processes and promote access to this data, in the first instance via its open data portal.
- Denmark should update its OGP National Action Plan to include ambitious commitments on aid transparency.
DONOR PROFILE
First published to IATI:
Jan-13
2013 ATI Score:
50.7%
2013 ATI Rank:
15
