ANALYSIS

ECHO scores 54.2%, placing it highest amongst EU institutions. It is the only EU institution to publish forward-looking budget data and tied aid status in its IATI files. It trails other EU institutions on organisation planning and is the only one not to include links to documents in its IATI organisation file. It leads the only other humanitarian agency included in the Index, UN OCHA, by over 12 percentage points. While ECHO performs well on organisation financial data and basic and classifications information of its activities, it does not systematically publish added-value fields such as results, conditions or budget documents. Of the indicators measured by format, over three quarters are published in machine-readable formats.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• ECHO should continue to improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and uses all fields – including structured performance data and links to project and organisation documents. It should segment its IATI activity files by country. These files should be refreshed at least quarterly.
• ECHO should produce an ambitious implementation schedule by early 2014 that aims to fully implement the IATI standard by the end of 2015.
• ECHO should work with other humanitarian aid organisations to ensure IATI fully meets the needs of humanitarian aid operations and to promote the standard within the humanitarian community.
• The EU’s aid transparency commitments should be fully integrated into ECHO’s forthcoming Communication on the future of EU humanitarian aid policy.

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