ANALYSIS

New Zealand scores 45.1%, placing it in the fair category. It ranks 13^th out of 50 bilateral organisations. New Zealand performs well on basic activity information and the provision of project documents, for which it scores above the fair category average. It performs less well on organisation-level financial information, in part because it does not publish an organisation file to IATI. It does not score any points for performance information (results, conditions and impact appraisals). Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, two thirds are published in machine-readable formats. However, some important fields are missing from its IATI publication including implementer, collaboration type, sub-national location, activity budgets, performance data and project documents. Activity documents, objectives, total activity budget and collaboration type appear to be consistently available on MFAT’s website however, suggesting that these could be published through its IATI feed.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• New Zealand should improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and includes links to project documents, sub-national location information, results and conditions data. It should also publish an organisation file.
• It should use its IATI data in its programming and coordination processes and promote the access and use of this information by others, in the first instance via the government’s open data portal.
• New Zealand should ensure that its OGP National Action Plan includes ambitious commitments on aid transparency.

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