International AidTransparency Initiative (IATI) TAG Overview

October 2010

1. Phase 1 IATI standard approved (applause)

TAG Progress

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• Annual forward planning budgets • Activity ID• Participating organisation

(funding, extending, implementing, beneficiary) • Recipient country & region• Collaboration type, flow type, aid type, finance type• Activity title & description & dates & stage• Detailed sector & policy markers• Financial transaction

(commitments, disbursements, expenditure, loan and Interest repayments, Incoming funding)

Phase 1 standard

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1. Phase 1 IATI standard approved (applause)

2. Technical infrastructure in place

TAG Progress

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1. Phase 1 IATI standard approved (applause)

2. Technical infrastructure in place

3. Country pilot in 5 countries

TAG Progress

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Burkina Faso, Colombia, DRC, Malawi, Rwanda

• Technical proof of concept: – a common data format for donor’s data– automating data exchange between donor and

country systems using the IATI standards

• Learn lessons:– partner country requirements – compatibility of donor data, country data and IATI – the impact of IATI on existing partner country and

donor processes and systems

Country Pilots - Overview

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1. Data exchange is possible; small changes to systems and processes are required

2. Phase 1 meets most needs of AIMS (not all) 3. Most phase 1 data is available in donor systems; not

so for phases 2 & 34. IATI can bring Increased accuracy, timeliness,

consistency of data and reduce transaction costs5. A range of stakeholders; budget alignment is a

priority*Little IATI awareness amongst donors

Country Pilots - Results

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1. October Steering Committee – agree proposals:– Licensing – Geo coding – Activity budgets, total activity cost and multi-funding

1. December Steering Committee - agree proposals:– Budget alignment– Results – Conditions & effectiveness indicators– Documents– Framework for Implementation

Key TAG Milestones

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1. Outstanding phase 1 implementation issues– Licensing (session 12, Tues pm)– Organisation identifiers (session 5, Mon pm)– Technical implementation (session 5, Mon pm)

1. Phase 1 Implementation– Sharing challenges and constraints– Views of the implementation schedule schedule– Support required

Work Plan Areas for Discussion pt1

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3. Phase 2 & 3 standards– Phase 2: budget alignment (session 4, Mon pm); activity

budgets; multi funding, total activity cost (12, Tues pm)– Phase 3: Geo coding (12, Tues pm); Results; effectiveness

indicators (7, Mon pm) – Documents (6, Mon pm)

4. Accessibility (8, Tues pm)– Levels of accessibility required / role of IATI– Approach and activities

5. Framework for Implementation (10, Tues pm)– Review FFI paper

Work Plan Areas for Discussion pt2

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1. Donor implementation support

2. Country implementation pilots

3. Release fully functional IATI registry & accessibility tools

4. Broaden membership– Foundations– NGOs– Humanitarian assistance

Other Key TAG Activities

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