Global Partnership Transparency Indicator Proposal
This table is a consultative version of the IATI Secretariat’s proposal to the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation for its revised Transparency Indicator. The indicator assesses all IATI publishers by scoring three dimensions – Timeliness, Forward-looking and Comprehensiveness – and then adjusting this score by the proportion (by value) of a publisher’s activities covered in their IATI data. The methodology is explained below the table and in the related Publisher Statistics pages. Please note that all Coverage values are currently set to 100% as the logic for these calculations is still being finalised. In summary:
{Score} = ( {Timeliness} + {Forward looking} + {Comprehensive} ) / 3
{Coverage-adjusted Score} = {Score} * {Coverage} / 100
Bill,
I am glad you raised this issue as the U.S. as a published cannot ever provide forward looking data. The U.S. Government budgets one year at a time based on our processes, and we should not be penalized for this process. If this index is going to be successful, it needs to take into account different business models and operating processes. The score should be on what is available for that specific donor. So for the U.S. it is one year and we provide that one year.