NGOs
In the previous blogpost I described the main reasons why it is in the interest of NGOs to publish their data in the IATI standard. NGOs will not have to publish all data fields proposed by the IATI standard because many of those fields are not applicable. To provide a minimum level of detail, NGOs should at least provide the following information: Activity Number/Project ID, Title, Project Description, funding organisation or donor, location, other organizations involved, the total project value in financial terms, the dates and values of expenditures, dates and values of disbursements, the start and end date of a project and links to related project documents that are already published.
The effort and costs involved to actually implement the IATI standard will vary from one NGO to another. For smaller and even mid-size NGOs the use of online tools for implementation is a very good option to keep costs and hassle low.The data can be entered either manually or by uploading an excell spreadsheet. Watch this video of the OpenAidRegister on how your NGO can publish to IATI.
Alternatively you may also check out the Aidstream website and publish your data via this tool. Read more »
Transparency of individual organisations is important but it is not enough. The consulting company PricewaterhouseCooper has developed a standard for transparent reporting of NGOs in Germany and awards the German Transparency Price for the most transparent NGO in the social sector. In November, for the 7th time, the award ceremony took place to honour those NGOs in Germany that provide comprehensive and detailed information about their work. During this ceremony, I was able to present the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)as the next step in transparency. Read more »
Open knowledge – from open educational resources, to open hardware and open data – can play a powerful role in supporting sustainable global development. At the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki development practitioners from around the world will come together to explore how open knowledge can make development cooperation more effective and help to address key development challenges like chronic poverty, access to education and natural resource management.
In the development stream we will these topics: Read more »
People who argue for more transparency in development cooperation are often eager to point out all the merits of transparency. Unfortunately, often we are not very sure whether our claims are well founded. Even worse, there are very few examples who can illustrate how exactly „more transparency“ could look like. Read more »