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U.S. – Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

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OVERVIEW

Have they met the Busan commitment on aid transparency? Yes.

Created by the U.S. Congress in 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an independent bilateral U.S. foreign aid agency providing large-scale, multi-year grants for global poverty reduction. The agency currently manages compacts and threshold programmes in 45 countries.

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ANALYSIS

Achievements and progress
  • MCC scores 89.6% placing it in the ‘very good’ category and second in the 2016 Index ranking. MCC remains the leading U.S. aid agency in terms of transparency.
  • MCC’s open aid portal allows for the free bulk export of data.
  • Since the 2015 U.S. Aid Transparency Review, MCC publishes
  • full organisation file which includes a three year forward-looking budget and its annual report.
  • At the activity-level, contracts and sub-national locations are also published to the IATI Registry.
Challenges and room for improvement
  • Tenders are always published but not to the IATI Registry while current evaluations could not be found.
  • Scores on sub-national locations, results data and activity budgets could all be improved by increasing the coverage of MCC’s activities.
  • For all U.S. agencies, aid data is published only quarterly to the IATI Registry.

RECOMMENDATIONS

  • MCC should work towards full implementation of the IATI Standard by publishing all remaining indicators to the Registry. MCC should aim for monthly publication to the IATI Registry.
  • MCC should continue to champion aid transparency and it should share best practice with other U.S. agencies.
  • It should promote the use of its IATI data by developing a plan for systematic outreach to stakeholders including Millennium Challenge Accounts and local partners.

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DONOR PROFILE

2016 Index Score:

Very good

89.6%

2014 Index Score:

Very Good

86.9%

2013 Index Score:

Very Good

88.9%


First published to IATI:

January 2013



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INDICATOR SCORING

TOTAL

89.6%

SECTION A

COMMITMENT TO
AID TRANSPARENCY:

8.05/10

SECTION B

PUBLICATION
ORGANISATION LEVEL:

24.52/25

SECTION C

PUBLICATION
ACTIVITY LEVEL:

56.99/65

Commitment

1. FOIA

2. Implementation Schedules

3. Accessibility

Publication Status
Source

http://www.rti-rating.org/country-data

Comments

No data available.


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1. FOIA

Stage

Status

Format

Source

Comments

http://www.rti-rating.org/country-data
Global RTI rating score of 89. Score conversion from total score on Global RTI rating to Index points done using the Expand...following scale: 1 - 60: 33 61- 90: 66 91 - 150: 100.
http://www.rti-rating.org/country-data
http://www.rti-rating.org/country-data
http://www.rti-rating.org/country-data
Publication Status
Source

http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/US-18/

Comments

The methodology and scoring details are available in the links provided alongside.


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2. Implementation schedules

Stage

Status

Format

Source

Comments

http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/
Based on total score received on Publish What You Fund's analysis of Common Standard/IATI implementation schedules
http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/
I'd like more detail on the PWYF score.
http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/US-18/
The methodology and scoring details are available in the links provided alongside.
http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/http://tracker.publishwhatyoufund.org/plan/organisations/US-18/
The methodology and scoring details are available in the links provided alongside.
Publication Status
Source

https://data.mcc.gov/

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 portal scores for all three criteria.


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3. Accessibility

Stage

Status

Format

Source

Comments

https://data.mcc.gov/
Portals are scored using three criteria: 1) the portal allows free, bulk export of data; 2) it contains detailed disaggregated data; Expand...3) the data is published under an open licence. Each of these carry 1/3rd of the total points of 100. It is unclear whether the portal allows free, bulk export of data.
https://data.mcc.gov/
Would posting a single .xml file of all our data suffice?
Is the question about the extent to which the export is available in 'bulk', i.e., all countries? If so, then, Expand...yes, I concur with the researcher's assessment. If 'bulk' can just refer to all the data for a single country (I suspect not), then the data are all there freely.
https://data.mcc.gov/
This indicator is used to assess the efforts an organisation makes to promote the access and use of its data Expand...A portal should allow free, bulk export of data through its web interface or API. .xml files could be accepted if reasonably sized and containing disaggregated information that can be easily used an re-used..
https://data.mcc.gov/
Portals are scored using three criteria: 1) the portal allows free, bulk export of data; 2) it contains detailed disaggregated data; Expand...3) the data is published under an open licence. The portal scores for all three criteria.

Planning

Planning

Financial

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

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: 90%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 82.61%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Basic

Classifications

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

27. MoU

28. Evaluations

29. Objectives

30. Budget Docs

31. Contracts

32. Tenders

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: 100%


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: 100%


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: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 75.96%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

Sometimes

Format: Document

Source

No data available.

Comments

This information has been checked for Senegal and other countries. A score of sometimes is maintained in light of the independent reviewer's comment above.


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28. Evaluations

Stage

Status

Format

Source

Comments

Sometimes
Document
https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog#_r=&collection=&country=191&dtype=&from=1988&page=1&ps=&sk=&sort_by=nation&sort_order=desc&to=2016&topic=&view=s&vk= Expand...
Only two evaluations could be found for Senegal, for activities which ended in 2012. No more recent documents could be found.
Sometimes
Document
https://inventory.data.gov/dataset/18497af6-900e-40e2-97c5-7d3a757a3502/resource/c7e6855c-97aa-4236-ad0a-e1ba9f43d79a/download/mccam.xml Expand...
That is because Senegal doesn't have any closed activities. If you use another country that has a greater number of closed Expand...activities (Armenia link included), you'll see more evaluations.
Document
I agree with the assessment but not the example. I don't think MCC should be docked for having info on Expand...'only' two evaluations available for Senegal. This conforms to the M&E plan (https://assets.mcc.gov/documents/ME_Plan_-_SEN_-_V3_-_Oct15.pdf). According to this plan, baseline data should have been conducted but the other pieces would only just be underway now or in the future. The baseline report is actually there on the evaluation catalog, as are questionnaires, etc. for later stages of the evaluation. It may be the case that not all evaluations are posted within a reasonable timeframe (and indeed, my co-author and I found that to be the case: http://www.cgdev.org/publication/ft/focus-results-mccs-model-practice-brief), but the Senegal example is not, in my opinion, a good one. Tanzania should have 8 evaluations, according to the M&E plan: https://assets.mcc.gov/documents/ME_Plan_-_TZA_-_V5_-_Post-Compact.pdf. Two of these were supposed to have a report available in 2015. It looks like documents related to all 7 evaluations are available in the catalog (because I think 3 of the evaluations listed in the M&E plan are subsumed into one Evaluation Catalog entry). The final reports for the two that were supposed to be published in 2015, however, do not appear to be available. So the 'sometimes' designation is still probably fair.
Sometimes
Document
https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog#_r=&collection=&country=191&dtype=&from=1988&page=1&ps=&sk=&sort_by=nation&sort_order=desc&to=2016&topic=&view=s&vk= Expand...
Only two evaluations could be found for Senegal, for activities which ended in 2012. No more recent documents could be found. Expand... This has also been checked for other countries. For activities that are not closed yet, midterm evaluations are accepted.
Document
Sometimes
Document
This information has been checked for Senegal and other countries. A score of sometimes is maintained in light of the independent Expand...reviewer's comment above.
Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

Always

Format: Document

Source

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=agency&mode=form&tab=notices&id=fbbe1a8de95a1b0154a012d5d5e75675 http://www.mcasenegal.org/mca/appels-d-offres

Comments

This information could be found on the organisation's website as well as the website of country MCAs.


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32. Tenders

Stage

Status

Format

Source

Comments

Always
Document
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=agency&mode=form&tab=notices&id=fbbe1a8de95a1b0154a012d5d5e75675
Tenders are published on the federal business opportunities site. Others can be found on the MCC website.
Always
Document
These are not tenders for our program activities, only for administrative activities. All programmatic procurements are executed by the MCAs.
Document
Agree but flag the donor's comment that tenders for program activities are let by the country MCAs not MCC. Tenders for Expand...program activities are on the websites of the MCAs.
Always
Document
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=agency&mode=form&tab=notices&id=fbbe1a8de95a1b0154a012d5d5e75675
Document
Always
Document
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=agency&mode=form&tab=notices&id=fbbe1a8de95a1b0154a012d5d5e75675 http://www.mcasenegal.org/mca/appels-d-offres Expand...
This information could be found on the organisation's website as well as the website of country MCAs.
Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 6.41%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 88.89%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%


Publication Status

IATI

Data quality: 100%