Overall findings
- The 2014 ATI results demonstrate that donors’ progress with implementing their aid transparency commitments remains uneven. It is notable that there is an increasing gap emerging between the organisations at the top and those at the bottom of the ranking.
- A leading group of organisations are making significant and continuous improvements to the information they publish on their current development activities, and many others have started taking steps towards improving their publication in 2014.
- The majority of organisations still perform poorly in absolute terms (37 out of 68 in 2014 are in the poor or very poor categories, compared to 42 out of 67 in 2013). The average score for all organisations is 39%, up by six percentage points from 2013.[1] Much of this increase is attributable to the top performing organisations, as the average score discounting the organisations in the good and very good categories is still low at 28%, only a two percent increase from 2013.
- As in previous years, larger organisations generally perform better overall and multilaterals as a group tend to score better than bilaterals, although the performance of individual organisations within each group varies significantly.
[1] All averages used in the ATI report refer to simple averages or mean scores rather than weighted averages.