Presentation from Wednesday 17th March, Breakout Session on International Grant Making and the IATI Standard, at the 2010 Grant Manager's Network Annual Conference, Baltimore.

1. The International AidTransparency Initiative (IATI) Development Initiatives And friends …. Hewlett Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Foundation Center Grantsfire

2. A division of labour My part: Why are we doing this? What is IATI trying to do? What does it have to do with foundations? Your part: Does this make sense? Advantages for foundations? Challenges, and how to overcome them? Might your foundation participate?

4. After the tsunami in Aceh “In February, in Riga (close to Calang) we had a case of measles, a little girl. Immediately, all epidemiologists of Banda Aceh came in, because they were afraid of a propagation of measles among displaced people, but the little girl recovered very fast. Then, we realized that this was not a normal case of measles and we discovered that this girl has received the same vaccine three times, from three different organizations. The measles symptoms were a result of the three vaccines she received.” El Pais (April 13, 2005, p. A2).

9. Transparency of resources for poverty Enable feedback (“social accountability”) Reduce administration, overlap and waste Reduce corruption, track money Effective decision-making and execution Predictable spending, coordinated programmes Identify need Learn what works Better institutions and “social contract” Build support for foreign assistance

12. inconsistent

13. scattered across multiple sites

14. unavailableDonor budgetsand accounts DAC CRS FTS AIDA, PLAID, TRAID, Donor Atlas, etc AIMS Journalists & Researchers Line Ministries Sectoralworking groups 30 Embassy orDelegation websites

15. International Aid Transparency Initiative Agreed in 2008 18 funders, half of global aid Others participating but not formally committed Four components: agreement on what will be published; common definitions for sharing information ; a common electronic data format; a “code of conduct”. On track to agree details during 2010 All resources for poverty in developing countries

16. Taxonomy hell

22. Automaticdata sharing?

23. Layar Wikitude

24. What would this mean? Modification to MIS Collect & record more data Some difficult questions “Streamlined” reporting: joined up with Foundation Center, Grantsfire, IRS, OECD DAC, Governments Easier grant management (?)

25. Advantages for grantmakers Better results Demonstrate impact Learning and feedback Grant management Less duplication Easier collaboration Challenges Does this make sense? Advantages? Overcome challenges? Participate? Who decides? Publishing more information Changing systems Embarrassment Privacy Change is hard

26. www.aidinfo.orgwww.aidtransparency.netowen@devinit.orgvictoria@devinit.org

27. Backup slides

28. Process and next steps Drafts of what is published and code of conduct already been through consultation process TAG meeting 22nd/23rd March discusses draft definitions and formats Steering Committee meeting April 2010 Final agreement on data to be published July 2010 Final agreement on documents to be published end 2010 Implementation of phase 1 due to start by end 2010 Code of conduct to be agreed by end 2010 Scaling up donor outreach, including through EU process if possible

30. “Publish once, use often”

31. A four part standard 1) agreement on what will be published; 2) common definitions for sharing information ; 3) a common electronic data format; 4) a “code of conduct”. The underlying principle is publish once, use many times