ANALYSIS

BMZ – GIZ scores 53.9%, placing it in the fair category. It ranks fifth out of 50 bilateral organisations, trailing Canada, the fourth-highest scoring bilateral organisation, by 17 percentage points. It has made progress in some areas over the past year, with an increase of eight percentage points since the release of the 2013 ATI. BMZ – GIZ performs well on basic activity-level and classification information. It is the only German organisation to score on contracts and objectives. Notably, BMZ publishes disaggregated budgets for three years ahead. Some of the new information items published by BMZ – GIZ include tied-aid status, planned dates and conditions; others such as finance type, description and organisation documents are now being published to IATI. However, some important fields including forward-looking activity budgets, budget documents and impact appraisals are still missing while others such as results, sub-national location and evaluations are not consistently published. Overall, BMZ – GIZ scores on 31 of the 39 indicators. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, 17 are published in machine-readable formats.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• BMZ should work with GIZ to improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and includes links to project documents, results and conditions data and forward-looking budgets.
• It should update its implementation schedule in 2014 so it is more ambitious, with specific timelines and delivery targets for GIZ, aiming towards full implementation of the IATI Standard by the end of 2015.
• BMZ and GIZ should use their IATI data in their internal programming and coordination processes and promote the access and use of this information by others.

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