One of the commitments of the Grand Bargain is to ‘reduce the earmarking of donor contributions’.
Whilst IATI had already been identified by the Grand Bargain as a mechanism to enable greater transparency of humanitarian data there is also much interest in using IATI as a source of data to monitor the earmarking commitment of
- ‘… 30% of humanitarian contributions non-earmarked or softly earmarked by 2020.’
- ‘Reduce the degree of earmarking of funds …’
In order to support the monitoring of (un)earmarked funding it has been proposed to enable the reporting of earmarking within IATI by
- (in the short term) integrating the Grand Bargain earmarking definitions as an aid-type vocabulary at v2.03 of the IATI Standard (v2.03 will be available from Jan 2018)
- (in the longer term but ASAP) enhance the DAC aid-type definitions that are already in use by IATI
With regard to enhancing the DAC aid type definitions Ole Jacob (OJ) Hjøllund has already produced some recommendations which I am therefore posting here to the community for further comments & thoughts etc.
In addition all the referenced aid-type definitions are here
Dear Steven et. al.
The proposal previously shared is in process. Currently it is open for written comments from members of WP-STAT (deadline cob 28. February) – based on these inputs, a proposal will be finalized for approval at the formal meeting in June.
As the standard-procedure for such updates, these changes/additions to the type_of_aid codelist will be applicable for the final statistical reporting on 2017-flows – thus just meeting the monitoring requirements of the Grand Bargain.
Yours OJ
There is a draft proposal that has been written and was reviewed / discussed within the team yesterday. A couple of small changes are required, though it should be posted on Discuss in the near future once there has been an opportunity to make these small changes.