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IATI aims to develop consistent and coherent international standards for the way donors report information about their aid spending. Since its launch, at the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in September 2008, IATI has worked to towards achieving this objective. To date it has:

IATI has completed the following:

  • regional consultations with civil society organisations, partner country governments and other stakeholders
  • fact-finding missions to donor HQs
  • scoping visits to two partner countries (Malawi and Burkina Faso)

IATI has also scoped out broad parameters for aid reporting standards, undertaken detailed stakeholder consultations on the scoping study’s proposals for reporting standards and a Code of Conduct for participating donors & held detailed discussions and negotiations on the scoping study’s proposals.

IATI recently held an international conference, attended by 150 participants including nine Ministers and has also started to design data and information formats for the reporting standards.

During 2010 IATI plans to:

  • Undertake Proof of Concept Pilot studies in six partner countries to test the viability of practical information exchange between donors’ and partner governments’ information systems
  • Agree what data and documents IATI signatories will publish , and how they will publish them
  • Encourage more donors and partner countries to join the initiative as signatories, endorsers and observers
  • Support donors in implementing Phase 1 Standards for data publication

By the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which takes place at Busan in November 2011 IATI will:

  • Launch its new standards and registry for reporting aid spending
  • Support donors in implementing Phase 2 of the reporting standards
  • Agree how IATI’s functions will be taken forward after 2011, from which time it is planned that IATI will be disbanded and its activities transferred to other organisations