Report from Partner Countries Work Stream Day

Report from Partner Countries Work Stream – Day 1 Room 2

SESSION 1 – PARTNER COUNTRIES, INFOMEDIARIES • Key points: – Quality and frequency of data provided by DPs must be improved; – Awareness among both IATI signatories and non-signatories at countrylevel of partner country information needs must be strengthened to help the data collection efforts by partner countries; – This hinges on improvements of information flows from capitals to country -offices of IATI signatories as well as awareness raising among nonsignatories by partner countries; – The IATI Registry was created to provide best possible information for improving/enriching the national data collection process, not to replace it. • Recall of the 8 points PC main messages came out from the 23 April meeting • Overview of the 3 IATI country pilots: – Diversity in the context of countries: tools used, geography, LICs/MIC mix, financial systems…

SESSION 2 – IMPLEMENTATION AT COUNTRY LEVEL: RWANDA PILOT • Context : – 40 -50% of national budget is financed by ODA – All ODA through Government is on budget – A dynamic mechanism to monitor aid effectiveness is in place: Donor Performance Assessment Framework; solid achievements in reforming the PFM; using DAD as AIMS – DAD is public • Rwanda is piloting AIMS-PFIMS integration process • In Rwanda, a conscious effort is underway to move forward on fiscal transparency and aid transparency simultaneously • IATI Rwanda pilot on budget alignment and automatic data exchange is underway, and results expected by Q 3/2012

COLOMBIA PILOT • Using a locally developed bespoke AIMS • Presentation of Colombian systems specificities; • Presentation of the Architecture of their AIMS to fit into the actual IATI and budget alignment process • Colombia IATI pilot to look at South-South flows will begin in June 2012 Challenges faced by the 2 countries: • Quality and Comprehensiveness of data (timeliness, frequency…) • Getting DPs to report according to the PC fiscal year

DRC PILOT • DRC is the most advanced of the three IATI pilots, and focuses on automatic exchange between IATI Registry and the DRC AIMS (PGAI) • The DRC pilot shows that we have now moved from DEVELOPING IATI to DOING IATI • Positive results from the tests done with DFID data – Extended the process to Sweden and Global Fund; now need to extend to other DPs • Consistent contribution of the automatic data exchange to data collection means that the country process remains in place, but has been enhanced – less time for data collection, more time for verification and data analysis • More detailed, accurate, forward-looking data and better frequency

SESSION 3 – THE ISSUE OF FORWARD-LOOKING DATA • Request by DPs at the meeting that PCs indicate which are the most needed data fields in view of their upcoming processes for preparation of next fiscal years’ budgets • PCs would like to have forward-looking data for the lifetime of a project, or at least 3 years ahead: – However, the focus is next year’s (n+1) data • PCs require disaggregated forward-looking data at activity/project-level rather than data that is aggregated by country (as per OECD-DAC forward spending survey) or by Ministry allocations • Forward-looking data needs to be provided in a way that fits, or can be “translated to”, the PC fiscal year

OPEN DATA – OPEN GOVERNMENT – PUBLIC ACCESS • World Bank approach – Beyond data, open to the public the process (budget…) – Social accountability: feed-back from citizens on budget allocation • DG/Synergy tools: – Value-added of GIS/geo-coding and other features – Addressing AIMS-PFM systems integration • The PCs might wish to consider giving public access to their AIMS and PFM systems