deconstructing iati, dadcop 2014
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Deconstructing IATI, DADCoP 2014. Supporting local CSOs implement the standard By Steve Kenei. 22 nd Jan 2014. Who are we? Short story. Global Humanitarian Assistance. Budget Analysis. Investments To End Poverty. AidInfo. AidInfo. Recap. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Development Initiatives exists
to end absolute poverty by 2030
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Deconstructing IATI, DADCoP 2014Supporting local CSOs implement the standardBy Steve Kenei
22nd Jan 2014
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Who are we? Short story
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Global Humanitarian Assistance
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Budget Analysis
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Investments To End Poverty
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AidInfo
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AidInfo
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RecapObjective : End chronic poverty by 2030 through access to better information on resource allocation
How? • Providing thorough analysis on how money is spent• Work on building capacity for organisations on analytical and reporting skills• Forge forward towards a common open transparency standard• We believe in working with technology to influence policy
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What’s DI’s role in IATI?
Technical Lead
Outreach to non-traditional donors and civil society
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IATI: Breaking down the standard Multi stake-holder initiative Improvement of aid transparencyPublishers include government agencies, multi-laterals, local and international NGOs, dev finance institutions and even the private sector
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IATI: Under the hood• XML based open standard for reporting
• High degree of technicality
• Is combination of two standards; Organisation StandardActivity Standard
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The Organisation Standard• Who is reporting? Donor, recipient etc
• Forward planning budgets (including period and value) Reporting agency, recipient agency and countries
• Links to organisation documents Annual reports, published results etc
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Activity Standard• More complex (has about 60 entry fields)• Activity can be classified as a project, programme, contract etc• Contains transactional data• Sectoral classifications• Geographic data• Activity level documentation links• Outputs, impact and results
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Transactions
Types• Commitments, Incoming Funds, Disbursements,
Reimbursements, Expenditure, Interest, Loan Repayments (Equity purchase/sale, etc)
Currencies and value dates
Granularity• Minimum ask = quarterly aggregates
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Visualising an Activity
• Project Number, Title, Description, Sector
What
• Funding, Accountable, Implementing
Who
• Start Date, End Date
When
• Country/Region
Where
• Incoming Funds, Disbursements, Expenditures, Budgets
How much?
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Publication• Data belongs to the publishing organisation• It is published and stored with the originator with links to the IATI registry• API’s are issued to 3rd party application developers to develop visualisation tools
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The registry
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What it looks like on the registry
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What it looks like to you
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Day to day...Maintain
and upgrade
the standard
Guidance and
documentation
Support to
publishers
Training
Publishing tools
TAG
Country work
Data use tools
Political and
technical partners
Outreach
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Local CSO outreach & support• Started late last year• Girls Education Challenge fund – entry
point• The GEC has about 15 grantees in the
region• Stakeholder scoping in Kenya and Uganda
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Training methodology• Understanding the benefits of
transparency• Going through case studies of first time
publishers to understand challenges likely to be faced
• Do internal feasibility studies to fathom difficulties likely to arise and how to overcome them
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Training methodology• Review of the standard
• What to publish
• Implementation schedule
• Publishing tools
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Implementation Schedule
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Publishing tools
IATI-xml
In-house
Xls/csv conversion
Web Entry Platform
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CSV conversion tool• For use with large data sets• User converts system generated .xls files
into .csv files• Automated conversion of .csv into .xml• .xml published onto registry
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CSV conversion tool
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Web entry platform: AIDSTREAM• Secure, online project management
software developed by partners in Open Nepal project
• Free and open source
• A user-friendly way of easily capturing and publishing data
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AIDSTREAM
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In action
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Story so far• One publisher in Kenya so far (ICL Africa)• One to begin implementation by end of
January• More than 15 local African CSOs
publishing• Continued support for local CSOs
publishing
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Way forward• Further scoping and identification of
stakeholders• Continued outreach to local CSOs• Developing a localised training manual• Identify new entry points from development
partners• Learn from DAD/UNDP; shift implementation
perception from being donor lead to CSO/Country lead
• Working on unification of reporting standards
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Thank you very much
Steve Kenei