34.
Norway – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fair
OVERVIEW
Have they met the Busan commitment on aid transparency? No.
The Index takes into account information published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). The majority of Norwegian development assistance is administered by the MFA but most activity-level information is found on the Norad website.
ANALYSIS
Achievements and progress
- Norway has begun implementation of the IATI Standard publishing information relating to fifteen activity-level indicators to the IATI Registry in December 2015. As a result Norway has moved into the ‘fair’ category from the ‘poor’ category.
- Norway’s activity file includes all activity finance indicators barring the budget identifier, all classification indicators barring sub-national locations and all basic indicators with the exception of planned dates and contact details.
Challenges and room for improvement
- Norway still does not publish a complete organisation file to the IATI Registry despite all fields being always published in non-IATI formats.
- At the activity level contact details, evaluations, objectives and tenders are always published. Planned dates, sub-national locations, MoUs and results are published only sometimes and not in the IATI Standard. Budget documents, contracts, budget identifiers, impact appraisals and conditions are not published at all.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- Norway should publish a complete organisation file to the IATI Registry and should publish at least three years forward-looking budgets and disaggregated budgets.
- It should improve its activity level publication aiming for better coverage of all its activities and better comprehensiveness on the IATI Registry, in particular for activity related documents and performance information.
- Norway should improve its frequency of publication to at least quarterly, if not monthly.
DONOR PROFILE
2016 Index Score:
Fair
2014 Index Score:
Poor
2013 Index Score:
Poor
First published to IATI:
December 2015
INDICATOR SCORING
TOTAL
41.9%
SECTION A
COMMITMENT TO
AID TRANSPARENCY:
6.68/10
SECTION B
PUBLICATION
ORGANISATION LEVEL:
9.26/25
SECTION C
PUBLICATION
ACTIVITY LEVEL:
25.98/65
Commitment
1. FOIA
2. Implementation Schedules
3. Accessibility
Publication Status
Source
http://www.rti-rating.org/country-data
Comments
Global RTI rating score of 78. Score conversion from total score on Global RTI rating to Index points done using the following scale: 1 - 60: 33 61- 90: 66 91 - 150: 100
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1. FOIA
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Source
http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/
Comments
Based on total score received on Publish What You Fund's analysis of implementation schedules.
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2. Implementation schedules
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Source
http://udtilskudd.regjeringen.no/#/nb/country/details?country=17&year=2015
Comments
Portals are scored using three criteria: 1) the portal allows free, bulk export of data; 2) it contains detailed disaggregated data; 3) the data is published under an open licence. The data portal provided alongside scores for all three criteria.
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3. Accessibility
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Planning
Financial
4. Organisation Strategy
5. Annual Report
6. Allocation Policy
7. Procurement Policy
8. Country Strategy
9. Total Budget
10. Disaggregated Budgets
11. Audit
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
No data available.
Comments
NORAD strategy up to 2015 published. An updated document is expected forthcoming.
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4. Organisation strategy
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
No data available.
Comments
Annual reports are published within regular cycles.
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5. Annual report
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
No data available.
Comments
Priority areas are published.
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6. Allocation policy
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
No data available.
Comments
This information is available on the organisations website.
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7. Procurement policy
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
No data available.
Comments
Development cooperation priorities for each recipient country are published in brief for all countries sampled.
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8. Country strategy
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Source
https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/prop.-1-s-ud-20152016/id2456001/?q=&ch=2#KAP11_ch2
Comments
Projected budgets for the next year are available on the organisations website.
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9. Total budget
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Source
No data available.
Comments
In light of evidence from the independent reviewer the scores for this indicator have been adjusted to reflect that indicative budgets are provided disaggregated along thematic lines.
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10. Disaggregated budgets
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
No data available.
Comments
The document published on the Auditor General's web page includes the MFA and is published in regular cycles.
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11. Audit
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Basic
Classifications
Related Documents
Financial
Performance
12. Implementer
13. Unique ID
14. Title
15. Description
16. Planned Dates
17. Actual Dates
18. Current Status
19. Contact Details
20. Collaboration Type
21. Flow Type
22. Aid Type
23. Finance Type
24. Sector
25. Sub-national Location
26. Tied Aid Status
33. Budget
34. Commitments
35. Disbursements And Expenditure
36. Budget Identifier
37. Results
38. Impact Appraisals
39. Conditions
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 99.61%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 97.19%
Publication Status
Sometimes
Format: Website
Source
No data available.
Comments
Information on the start and end years is available. However, both month and year are required to score on this indicator. The original agreement signing date is sometimes available, but end dates are not provided by month and year.
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16. Planned dates
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 50%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
Always
Format: Website
Source
No data available.
Comments
Available through the grants portal. There is a contact us link on the navigation bar on each page that refers to a central information desk.
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19. Contact details
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 98.63%
Publication Status
Sometimes
Format: Website
Source
Comments
For the majority of activities surveyed a sub-national location is published. However, this is not always the case.
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25. Sub-national location
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 98.57%
Publication Status
Sometimes
Format: Document
Source
Comments
Only one published MoU could be found for Brazil which is old. Evidence found of MoU's with top recipients. To score always on this indicator all signed MoU's must be published or similar, jointly developed documents governing the relationship between the organisation and the recipient must be published.
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27. MoU
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
Comments
Evaluations appear to be consistently published.
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28. Evaluations
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
Comments
Objectives are commonly provided in the policy marker sections or in the description.
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29. Objectives
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Not Published
Source
http://udtilskudd.regjeringen.no/#/nb/agreement?agreementNo=BRA-14/0019
Comments
This information could not be found for any of the projects assessed. Budget documents cannot simply be at the country level. If an activity budget is included in a larger country-level document, it is only accepted if the budget for the activity is broken down line by line.
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30. Budget Docs
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Not Published
Source
No data available.
Comments
No awarded contract documents could be found. There was also no summary information on awarded contracts available.
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31. Contracts
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Always
Format: Document
Source
http://www.norad.no/en/front/about-norad/tenders-from-norad/
Comments
Published on the NORAD website and on two external databases accessible via the NORAD web page.
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32. Tenders
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 25.64%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
IATI
Data quality: 100%
Publication Status
Not Published
Source
Comments
This information could not be found.
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36. Budget Identifier
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Sometimes
Format: Pdf
Source
http://www.norad.no/resultater/resultatportal/#&sort=date
Comments
Some results reports are published but not systematically for all projects.
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37. Results
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Not Published
Source
Comments
This information could not be found for any of the projects assessed.
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38. Impact Appraisals
Stage
Status
Format
Source
Comments
Publication Status
Not Published
Source
Comments
This information could not be found for any of the projects assessed.
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