International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), SDC Membership 2021-2024


International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a global initiative to improve transparency of development and humanitarian resources addressing poverty and crises. The IATI statistical data standard delivers information for donor and recipient countries to improve coordination, accountability and effectiveness of international cooperation to achieve the SDGs efficiently.

As a member of IATI, SDC will contribute to increase outreach of data to partner countries. 

Pays/région Thème Période Budget
Monde entier

01.10.2020 - 31.12.2023
CHF 360'000
Contexte

Availability and transparency of data has become more and more crucial in the past decade, and the context of the Agenda 2030 has even sharpened the need for more and better data. Created in 2008, IATI has become a reference standard, with more than 1000 organisations publishing their data by means of a central global registry. The visibility of IATI data[1] has increased sharply in recent years, allowing development stakeholders to collaborate and identify relevant, effective and evidence-based interventions. 

Switzerland has expressed its commitment to transparency in various occasions such as the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation. Lately, SDC has been active in collaborating with various committees that deal with data: OECD, Paris21, GPEDC, and has even grown more visible as co-organiser of the World Data Forum in Bern. This adhesion to IATI is coherent with SDC’s transparency policy. It meets expectations expressed by Swiss to produce more accessible and transparent data on Swiss international cooperation and to make a wider use of the IATI standard in the federal administration. It is also in line with the priorities given to digitalisation and to the use of scientific data as defined in the Dispatch 2021-2024 and with the Open Government Data strategy 2019-2023 adopted by the Federal Council. 

SDC will engage as active member to improve the performance and outreach of IATI.

[1] The term IATI data  used in the credit proposal is referring to the data published (in xml files) according to the

IATI standard in a central registry,

Objectifs The overall goal is the achievement of sustainable development goals through the publication and use of good quality data on development resources, activities, pledges and results. By connecting humanitarian and development actors through a standardized data system, their financial flows, policies, programs and results are made more visible. Through this transparency effort, more effective partnerships as well as local ownership can be built improving decisions around and management of international development efforts.  
Groupes cibles
  • Governments in low and middle income countries
  • Donor governments 
  • Multilateral organisations
  • Development Finance Institutions
  • Philanthropic Foundations
  • Fund managers
  • International non-governmental organisations
  • Local non-governmental organisations
  • Private sector organisations Academic, training and research organisations 
Effets à moyen terme
  • IATI improves the quality of data published.
  • IATI consolidates its technical core, maintains its infrastructure and reinvigorates its community of publishers and members.
  • IATI promotes the systematic use of IATI data by development and humanitarian actors. 
Résultats

Principaux résultats attendus:  

  • SDC has improved the communication and outreach of its IATI data
  • SDC has made progress towards the digitalization of results along the IATI standard 


Direction/office fédéral responsable DDC
Crédit Coopération au développement
Partenaire de projet Partenaire contractuel
Organisme des Nations Unies (ONU)
  • Other UN Organisation


Autres partenaires
International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Secretariat 
Coordination avec d'autres projets et acteurs

Outside SDC: 

  • OECD
  • Donor agencies
  • CH CSOs
  • Multilateral organisations 
  • Publish What You Fund (PWYF)

 

Inside SDC:

  • RDM Project
  • Quality Insurance
  • Aid Effectiveness, Evaluation and Corporate
  • Evaluation and Controlling Division
Budget Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF   360'000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF   85'000