From: Yona Maro
Some 200 organisations have committed to a common standard and time schedule for publishing aid information under the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This is great news for transparency advocates. But in a Center for Global Development blog earlier this month Will McKitterick pointed out that of the 125 international NGOs that published data in the IATI registry, only six are US-based organisations. McKitterick noted: “The US NGO community seems to be dragging its feet. Some see costs as their main impediment. Others are concerned that publishing could put their staff and activities at risk. But there is good reason to consider these apprehensions overblown …”
As Linda Raftree, Plan USA’s project manager in charge of IATI publishing effort, said: “We started wanting to be as transparent as possible … publish everything IATI asked for … but after wider consultation with other teams, we ended up with something a bit more realistic.” Rather than publishing everything all at once or making a quick decision on publishing a limited data set and being done with IATI, we’ve designed a three-phase process that will allow us to improve our internal systems while gradually publishing more and more of our data.
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