Wouldn’t it be better to focus on improving the DAC’s Creditor Reporting System (CRS) and data supply in CRS ++ format?
The OECD-DAC’s Creditor Reporting System (CRS) database is the gold standard in producing verified, high quality statistics on past aid flows. The CRS is designed to track aid contributions from donors and to hold donors accountable for meeting aid commitments, and it fulfils this function very well. However, there are a number of reasons why the CRS is not ideally placed to meet all the information needs of partner countries, civil society organisations, citizens and parliamentarians: – Timeliness: information is currently between 11 to 23 months out of date by the time it is published in CRS. This is due to an annual reporting cycle and the need to report comprehensive ODA data from multiple agencies, and undertake quality assurance for statistical integrity. – Information not statistics: It is vital that verified, high quality statistics are collected on aid activities and this is a function that the DAC CRS does extremely well. But IATI is about information rather than statistics.
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