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PPAs and Transparency

Mike Battcock

Civil Society Department

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Objectives of the session

•DFID Aid Transparency Guarantee

•What this means for civil society

•Minimum level of disclosure

•Additional level of disclosure

•Implementation schedule/timeline

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Transparency improves development effectiveness

• Improved effectiveness and value for money• Hold DFID and recipient governments to account. • Better feedback from beneficiaries• Better understand what works and what doesn’t. • Reduce waste, fraud and corruption.

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DFID Aid Transparency Guarantee

• All new DFID projects and programmes on our website:

• Common standard with other donors. • Comprehensive, accessible, comparable, accurate and

timely. • English summary in major local languages,• Anyone can reuse• Push for full transparency across the international aid system

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What does it mean for civil society partners

• Over time, any civil society organisation that is in direct receipt of DFID funds will need to adhere to similar standards of transparency.

• Not just DFID

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Programme Partnership Arrangements

• “PPA agency will work towards applying transparency standards in line with the UKaid Transparency Guarantee to the funds received from DFID. From financial year 2012/13, PPA agency will publish information about DFID funded projects in line with relevant categories of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards.”

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Minimum level of disclosure

• Activity number• Title• Description • Funding organisation or Donor• Country or Region• Incoming source of funds • Commitment/ Total project value • Expenditure date and value (if applicable)• Disbursement date and value (if applicable)• Project status• Project documents• Project budget

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Frequency of publishing

Quarterly

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Exclusions

• Options for exclusions (in line with Freedom of Information Act)

• Such as security, personal information, commercial sensitivity, partners and the organisation

• DFID exclusions less than 2%• Developing some common guidelines in later session.• Unless we are told information needs to be excluded, we

may publish it.

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Implementation plan

By 1/4/2012: • Implementation plan with timeline on when all of the “IATI

data items” will be published included.• Progress report (simple template that DFID working on)

highlighting which “data items” have been published.

By 1/5/2012• Submit plan and progress report/template with Annual Report

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By 1/4/2013• Progress report highlighting which “data items” have been

published.• All of “minimum level of disclosure items “ will have been

published.

By 1/5/2013• Submit plan and progress report/template with Annual Report