How will IATI ensure that information is high quality and accurate?
As donors move to become more transparent, it is important that the information they publish is of sufficient quality. There is a direct trade-off with timeliness – information is more useful if it is available in good time, especially for aid management purposes, but this reduces the time available for central scrutiny and checking. Any moves to greater transparency have to balance the need for high quality data with the need to make more information accessible in a timely manner. Specific features of the IATI proposal for minimising the risks and maintaining quality are: – projects and programmes would be usually classified and coded at the time by the staff with the most direct experience of those projects; – organisations often take more care over accuracy of information that is going to be published; – mistakes often arise from problems reconciling and aggregating information from many different sources. IATI would make it much easier to reconcile information; – the adoption of co
