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Greater Transparency

The Grand Bargain commits us to identifying and implementing a shared open-data standard and common digital platform which will enhance transparency and decision-making. This will demonstrate how funding moves from donors down the transaction chain until it reaches the final responders and, where feasible, affected people. The ‘do no harm’ principle will be safeguarded, both in terms of politicized context and protection concerns. The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is the most advanced option for a shared open-data standard. The Financial Tracking Service (FTS) is a well-established, voluntary information platform for recording international humanitarian aid contributions, which we accept needs further improvements.

Aid organisations and donors commit to:

  1. Publish timely, transparent, harmonised and open high-quality data on humanitarian funding within two years of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul. We consider IATI to provide a basis for the purpose of a common standard.
  2. Make use of appropriate data analysis, explaining the distinctiveness of activities, organisations, environments and circumstances (for example, protection, conflict-zones).
  3. Improve the digital platform and engage with the open-data standard community to help ensure:
  • accountability of donors and responders with open data for retrieval and analysis;
  • improvements in decision-making, based upon the best possible information;
  • a reduced workload over time as a result of donors accepting common standard data for some reporting purposes; and
  • traceability of donors’ funding throughout the transaction chain as far as the final responders and, where feasible, affected people.

     4. Support the capacity of all partners to access and publish data.

Co-convenors: Netherlands and the World Bank

Past meetings

Sep
09
2019

Humanitarian Transparency Research: Emerging Themes Webinar

Online
09:00 to 10:00
Sep
09
2019

Humanitarian Transparency Research: Emerging Themes Webinar

Online
09:00 to 10:00
Mar
29
2017

What does good humanitarian aid data look like

Geneva
13:30 to 17:00
Mar
29
2017

What does good humanitarian aid data look like

Geneva
13:30 to 17:00
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Recent news

  • Workstream 1 on Greater Transparency: COVID-19 tool improved to help facilitate greater transparency and coordination - November 2020 update
    20 November 2020
  • New tool facilitates greater transparency and coordination in COVID-19 financing
    16 July 2020
  • Supporting Grand Bargain signatories in meeting commitments to greater transparency
    23 June 2020
  • Strengthening data-driven transparency in response to Covid-19
    5 June 2020
  • New Covid-19 funding data visualisation launched
    5 June 2020
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Recent documents

  • Supporting Grand Bargain signatories in meeting commitments to greater transparency
    Published Date
    23 June 2020
  • Supporting Grand Bargain signatories in meeting commitments to greater transparency
    Published Date
    23 June 2020
  • The next step for humanitarian transparency - making IATI data more useful for decision-making
    Published Date
    26 September 2019
  • Grand Bargain Annual Meeting 2019 Opening speech by Eminent Person Sigrid Kaag
    Published Date
    1 July 2019
  • Grand Bargain Greater Transparency - Progress Update May 2019
    Published Date
    31 May 2019
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External Resources
  • (August 2020) USAID: The value of transparent data in humanitarian crises
  • IATI Humanitarian Data Portal
  • Baseline report: Implementing and monitoring the Grand Bargain commitment on transparency
  • Webinar: Improving humanitarian transparency with IATI
  • Workshops: Working together to improve humanitarian transparency
  • An introduction to IATI for humanitarian actors

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