ANALYSIS

DOD scores 33.7%, placing it in the poor category. It scores over 20 percentage points higher than UK’s Ministry of Defence, the only other defence organisation included in the Index. DOD performs moderately on organisation planning and activity classifications and financial information but does poorly in other areas, particularly on performance data, organisation financial data and the provision of project-related documents. DOD’s IATI publication includes: actual dates, current status, unique IDs, sector, actual expenditure and planned expenditure. However, it does not include any activity or organisation documents, even though some of this information is available on DOD’s website. Of the indicators that take format into account, fewer than two thirds are published in machine-readable formats. It does not publish information systematically across all projects on implementing organisations, planned dates, overall costs, conditions and results. DOD also does not publish forward-looking budgets for recipient countries. DOD reviewed the automated assessment of IATI data for the Index but declined to comment on the manually collected survey data.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• DOD should improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and covers all the fields in the IATI standard.
• DOD should publish an IATI organisation file, include links to activity-related documents, and add performance data to its IATI publication.

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