1. #2013ATI
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2. Who we are and what we do
• Global campaign for aid transparency
• IATI and the Busan Common Standard
• Annual Aid Transparency Index (ATI)

3. Methodological review
• Changed global environment post Busan
• Need to start monitoring donors’ more
ambitious commitments
• Need for consistency in our asks
• Deadline of end 2015 for “full
implementation”
• Extensive consultation with donors, peer
reviewers

4. Publication format

6. Conclusions

7. Recommendations

8. Aid Transparency Tracker

9. Overview of methodology
• For each indicator, for each donor: is
data available in IATI format?
YES
NO
test it automatically
complete a manual survey
• Allows us to:
– Test the quality of IATI data if available
– Include data that’s not available through IATI

10. Tracker Publication overview

11. IATI component

12. Overview of IATI methodology
• For each package for each organisation:
– Run a series of tests against each activity in
each file.
– Aggregate up for current activities

13. IATI Methodology: Tests
• Generally test for the existence of
particular elements
• In a few cases, they go further:
– Does a title have at least 10 characters?
– Does a sub-national location have geocoding?
• Need to improve some of these in future?

14. Other formats

15. Surveying data in other formats

16. Using the Tracker

17. Using the Tracker: Commitments

18. Using the Tracker: Commitments

19. Using the Tracker: IATI data

20. Using the Tracker: other data

21. #2013ATI
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