ANALYSIS

BMZ – KfW scores 50.8%, placing it in the fair category. It ranks eighth out of 50 bilateral organisations, trailing BMZ-GIZ by just over three percentage points. It has made progress in some areas since the release of the 2013 ATI, with an increase of seven percentage points since the 2013 Index. BMZ – KfW performs well on basic activity-level and classification information and is the only German organisation to score on evaluations. Notably, BMZ publishes disaggregated budgets for three years ahead. Some of the new information published by BMZ – KfW includes descriptions, planned dates for activities, finance type and conditions. However, some important fields such as forward-looking activity budgets, budget documents, contracts and impact appraisals are still missing while others such as objectives, results and sub-national location are not consistently published. Overall, it scores on 31 of the 39 indicators. Of the 22 indicators that take format into account, 16 are published in machine-readable formats.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• BMZ should work with KfW to improve its publication to IATI so it is comprehensive and includes links to project documents, results and conditions data and forward-looking budgets for all of KfW’s development cooperation.
• It should update its implementation schedule in 2014 so it is more ambitious, with specific timelines and delivery targets for KfW, aiming towards full implementation of the IATI Standard by the end of 2015. 
• BMZ and KfW should use their IATI data in their internal programming and coordination processes and promote the access and use of this information by others.

Close