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UK – Department for International Development (DFID)
Very good
OVERVIEW
DFID is responsible for approximately 90% of the UK’s ODA and leads on setting development assistance policy. It jointly administers the partially ODA-funded Conflict Pool with FCO and MOD. See UK-wide commitments and recommendations.
DFID was the first organisation to publish to the IATI Registry, in January 2011. It should be congratulated for refreshing its data on a monthly basis and for exploring traceability of aid flows, by integrating the IATI data of its NGO implementing partners with its own IATI data. DFID published a revised implementation schedule in December 2012, which sets out an ambitious plan for covering almost the entire IATI standard by 2015. It is currently piloting the IATI budget identifier.
DFID published an ambitious open data strategy in June 2012.[1] In June 2013 it launched a beta version of its new aid information platform, Development Tracker – devtracker.dfid.gov.uk – which presents IATI data from DFID and its partners to increase traceability. In December 2012, the Secretary of State launched an Aid Transparency Challenge Fund to stimulate the development of tools for using open aid data.
ANALYSIS
Although DFID has dropped in the ranking from 2012 from first to third, this is a reflection of very high quality IATI publications from MCC and GAVI and not a reduction in DFID’s transparency or a deceleration in its progress. DFID performs particularly well on commitment indicators, scoring 95% of the total possible score. It achieves almost full scores at the organisation level and for basic activity indicators. There is some room for improvement on performance data and linking project documents in its IATI data, although DFID has begun to do this consistently for new projects. Of the 22 indicators measured by format, DFID publishes information on 21 in IATI XML format.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- DFID should continue to improve the quality and breadth of its IATI data, including structured results and conditions data and geo-coded sub-national location data for all projects.
- DFID should work with other UK government aid-spending departments to help them publish to IATI or improve their existing publication, including working with FCO and MOD to publish the activities of the Conflict Pool.
- DFID should complete its pilot of the IATI budget identifier and share lessons with the IATI community.
DONOR PROFILE
First published to IATI:
Jan-11
Data was found in the following formats where relevant:
95% IATI
0% CSV/Excel
0% PDF
0% Website
5% Not Published