ANALYSIS

Achievements and progress

• DG NEAR has made significant progress since 2013 and is one of the biggest improvers increasing its score by 26%.
• It is the top ranking EC Directorate-General in the 2016 Index and remains in the ‘good’ category, increasing its score on the 2014 Index by 12.3%.
• DG NEAR has published four new indicators in the IATI Standard since the 2015 EU Aid Transparency Review including budget documents, conditions and impact appraisals.

Challenges and room for improvement

• DG NEAR publishes information on evaluations and tenders, but not in the IATI Standard.
• Important indicators such as Memoranda of Understanding and the budget identifier are not published at all. Others such as contracts and results are published inconsistently.
• A number of indicators published to the IATI Registry score poorly on data quality tests, such as sub-national locations, budget documents, commitments, impact appraisals and conditions.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• DG NEAR should improve its coverage and publish all available activity-related documents to the IATI Registry.
• It should require the implementation of the IATI Standard by all DFIs co-financing activities in the areas covered by its mandate.
• It should develop a strategy for internal and external use of its data with all relevant stakeholders, in particular among the EU’s pre- accession and neighbourhood countries.

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