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This consultation closed on March 1st, 2019 and the discussions are no longer accepting comments. If you would like to contact IATI, please email [email protected]

Many thanks to all those who took the time to comment on the discussions. Summaries of the discussions below will be available below on Friday 8th of March, 2019. We thank all our Moderators for facilitating the discussion and synthesising the outcomes.

From the 4th to 18th of March, IATI will hold a survey on data use as the next phase of the consultation to develop the IATI Strategic Plan. To learn more about IATI, visit iatistandard.org.

With IATI recently celebrating its ten-year anniversary, this online consultation is an opportunity to spark dialogue around essential priorities for the initiative’s next three years. Anticipating the next generation of partnership and data needs, your responses will help IATI to ensure it responds to the rapidly-evolving development finance, open data and transparency agendas, to increase the use of development cooperation data. 

You may wish to read through two background documents prepared for this consultation (an external and internal scanning paper). These papers examine the current international cooperation and open data landscape, as well as IATI’s progress and achievements since its inception in 2008, and may be useful tools to inform your participation in the consultation.

Please feel free to comment in as many threads, and respond to as many or as few questions, as you like. Though the consultation will largely be hosted in English, comments in French and Spanish are also welcomed. You may also submit contributions to [email protected] to be posted on your behalf, should you encounter any connectivity issues.

 

1. How could information reported through IATI respond better to partner country needs for relevant and easily-useable data that can be leveraged for national development planning processes, and foster development partner accountability at the same time? 

  • Beyond what was accomplished through the 2016-2018 Strategic Direction, what are the priority areas in which IATI can further improve the quality, timeliness and usability of data (for example, placing greater emphasis on encouraging publishers to use the added value fields such as geolocation, results, linked transparency, humanitarian and activity documents)?
  • How are users of data in partner countries (different government partners, civil society, journalists and activists) engaging with existing and emerging development cooperation providers? How could IATI support the harnessing and use of data on this cooperation at the national level?

2. Given the evolving development cooperation landscape, what new directions do you foresee for the IATI Standard over the next 3-5 years?

  • Which new or existing data fields, additional datasets, and business processes, would you prioritise to ensure interoperability of IATI data with fiscal and statistical country systems and / or alignment with development planning and programming processes?
  • Should IATI, as a standalone standard, respond to technological developments that will enable connectivity between data sources? If yes, how?
4 Feb 2019 - 28 Feb 2019

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