What will be the implications for donors of meeting the IATI standards?
Donors will have to do some things differently as a result of greater transparency irrespective of the system used to implement it. The information some donors collect and use internally and provide to partner governments is not intended to be made public. Any system which makes this information available to the public will mean those donors will have to tighten their processes to make this information suitable for publication. This is an unavoidable result of publishing this additional information, and does not depend on the choice of mechanism for IATI. IATI can, however, help donors to avoid unnecessary administrative costs of collecting information and multiple reporting. This can not only minimise the costs of greater transparency in the future, it can also reduce the existing costs of reporting aid information. Preliminary analysis has suggested that the costs of implementing the IATI proposals for donors would be offset by the efficiency savings within 1-2 years, although furthe
