ANALYSIS

Achievements and progress

• DG ECHO is placed in the ‘good’ category for the first time, leapfrogging DG DEVCO in the process and graduating from the ‘fair’ category where it ranked in the 2014 Index.
• It has published three new indicators to the IATI Registry since the 2015 EU Aid Transparency Review including activity budgets and sub-national locations.
• DG ECHO now publishes to the IATI Registry on a monthly basis.
• DG ECHO publishes a full organisation file in the IATI Standard, which includes the publication of disaggregated forward-looking budgets for one year ahead.

Challenges and room for improvement

• The publication of activity-level information is a weak point for DG ECHO where information is available but not published to IATI – for example on evaluations, contracts, tenders and impact appraisals are all published but not to the IATI Registry.
• Other information items such as budget documents, results and conditions are not published at all.
• A number of indicators published to IATI score poorly on data quality tests such as sub-national locations, sectors and country strategies.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• DG ECHO should continue to set an example on humanitarian data transparency and begin publishing to IATI’s new humanitarian fields in early 2017, increasing its frequency of publication to IATI to daily during fast on-set emergencies.
• It should promote aid transparency and IATI as a core component of good humanitarian practice at the World Humanitarian Summit and other international fora and among its implementing partners.
• DG ECHO should support the use of the EU’s humanitarian data by ensuring that IATI data can automatically feed into the EU’s EDRIS system.

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