ANALYSIS

JICA scores 23.5%, placing it in the poor category. It ranks 20^th out of 49 bilateral organisations and leads MOFA by over six percentage points. JICA performs best on planning at the organisation level but it does not publish country strategy papers. At the activity level, JICA posts scores above the poor category average on basic and classification data but lags on financial data. It scores no points for performance information. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, none are published by JICA in machine-readable formats. It does not score on 13 of the 39 indicators included in the Index.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• JICA should work with MOFA, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to produce an implementation schedule for IATI publication.
• It should begin publishing to the IATI standard in early 2014 so that it can meet its commitment to full publication of the IATI component of the Busan common standard by the end of 2015.
• JICA should start publishing performance data consistently for all its technical cooperation, ODA loan and grant aid projects.

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