ANALYSIS

Achievements and progress

• DFID has consolidated its position in the ‘very good’ category with the exact same score as in 2014 despite slipping from 2nd to

4th place and is the second highest ranking bilateral donor.

• DFID publishes all indicators to IATI. Current disaggregated budgets could not be found on the IATI Registry at the time of review.
• DFID is the best publisher of activity-level financial information and the joint best publisher of organisational planning information. In 2016, it has published a three-year forward-looking organisation budget for the first time.
• DFID is one of the few organisations publishing the budget identifier, which aims to help align information on development flows with recipient country budget classifications.

Challenges and room for improvement

• The quality and breadth of publication of a number of activity-level indicators are challenging DFIDs transparency efforts. In particular, priority should be given to improving the coverage of Memoranda of Understanding, sub-national locations, contracts, tenders and results data.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• DFID should work with other UK government aid-spending departments to help them publish to IATI or improve their existing publication. This is especially important in light of the UK aid strategy until 2020 highlighting the growing role of other departments in managing aid funds.
• It should raise its ambition and improve the quality and breadth of its IATI data, particularly at the activity-level paying specific attention to related-documents and results data.
• It should realise the benefits of its transparency efforts and develop a strategy for others, including external partners and stakeholders, to use the data in particular at country level.

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