ANALYSIS

The AA scores 9.1%, placing it in the very poor category as in 2013. It ranks 43^rd out of 50 bilateral organisations, below several organisations providing much smaller volumes of development cooperation. No comprehensive list of activities could be found for all projects funded by the AA. It performs best on organisation planning information, providing a total organisation budget for three years ahead, the organisation’s strategy, allocation policy and audit, and some brief information on country strategies. It performs poorly in all other areas. Overall, it does not score on 31 of the 39 indicators. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, none are published by the AA in machine-readable formats and only two – contact details and forward-looking organisation budget – are published in other formats.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• The AA should begin publishing to the IATI Standard as soon as possible in order to meet the 2015 deadline. It should coordinate with BMZ and other ministries to ensure that Germany’s IATI publication provides a full picture of all development cooperation activities funded by the AA.
• It should work with BMZ to publish an ambitious implementation schedule with specific timelines and delivery targets, aiming towards full implementation of the IATI Standard by the end of 2015.
• The AA should work with other providers of humanitarian aid through the IATI humanitarian working group to ensure that the Standard fully meets the need of humanitarian aid operations.

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