International Aid Transparency Initiative - Institutional Support 2016-2019

This grant represents Canada's institutional support to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). IATI uses these funds along with other donors' funding to achieve its objectives. IATI aims to make information about spending on international aid easier to access use and understand. Donor countries developing country governments and non-governmental organizations who have signed on to IATI commit to publishing more timely comprehensive and forward-looking information on international development assistance. IATI has developed a common open international standard for publishing this information. This grant supports the IATI Secretariat which maintains the IATI Registry and website; facilitates technical discussions related to the IATI standard data publication and use; assesses progress on open aid data; and provides technical support to publishers and users.

The expected intermediate outcome from the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is increased publication and use of high-quality data on international development assistance in support of sustainable development. The expected outputs include an increase in the number of organizations publishing aid data in accordance with the IATI standard an increase in use of IATI data by partner countries donor agencies and other stakeholders and improvement in the quality and timeliness of IATI data.