Six U.S. agencies are included in this pilot index –the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Defense (DOD), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Department of State (INL Bureau) and Department of the Treasury (Office of Technical Assistance). These represent some of the most significant U.S. agencies providing ODA. Profiles for each organisation are provided on the following three pages.

The United States has not signed IATI but it is an active observer. As part of its Aid Transparency Agenda for Action, it has launched a Foreign Assistance Dashboard that includes a reference to publish data in a common standard to enable global comparisons across data sets. However, at the time of writing it only includes two agencies (USAID and State) and only their information at the Congressional Budget Justification level (request and appropriation data), which is already public.

The U.S. should be congratulated for leading the OGP initiative and for including aid transparency in its action plan, specifically the implementation of the Dashboard.

All U.S. agencies that provide foreign assistance should begin publication of information through the Dashboard, which must be made compatible with the IATI standard. Implementation of the Dashboard should be codified through an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Bulletin or Directive. The U.S. Government should also sign IATI.

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