donor experiences of development aid statistics – united kingdom
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Donor Experiences of Development Aid Statistics – United Kingdom. Alex Stannard Statistician 27 May 2008. 1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA. Increasing demand for aid statistics. Make Poverty History G8 2005 promises - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Alex StannardStatistician27 May 2008
Donor Experiences of Development Aid Statistics –
United Kingdom
1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HEAbercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA
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Increasing demand for aid statistics
• Make Poverty History• G8 2005 promises• 0.7% commitment
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UK Official Development Assistance as % of GNI
Target
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Aid statistic customers
• Parliament• Internal DFID Management• International bodies• Other donors• General public• NGOs• Lobby groups
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Four reporting obligations
• UK International Development Reporting and Transparency Act
• Created statutory requirement for DFID to report aid statistics, DFID ownership of UK ODA reporting
• International Reporting• Reports provided DAC, both DAC
questionnaire and CRS database
• Freedom of Information• Questions from general public, if data or
analysis exists DFID is obliged to answer
• Parliamentary Questions (PQs)• Questions from Parliament, DFID obliged to
answer
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UK International Development Reporting and Transparency Act
• Created statutory requirement for DFID to report aid statistics• Annual Report• Aid effectiveness• Reports on the impact of UK aid in at least
20 countries• Millennium Development Goals• Future spending plans• Aid expenditure statistics• Progress towards 0.7%
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International reporting
• DAC Reporting• DAC Advanced Questionnaire
• High level aggregates• March deadline
• Main DAC Questionnaire• Detailed country and sector data• July deadline
• CRS Reporting• Very detailed project information• Quarterly reports
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CRS++ - A new way to report to the DAC
• Replaces CRS reports• Allows DAC reports to be built from CRS
reports• Very detailed project information
collected• Reduced costs and guarantees
consistency
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Finance and Corporate Performance Division main contact with the DAC on aid statistics
DFID
Regional Divisions
FinanceCorporate
Performance Division
Europe andDonor
Relations Department
Central Divisions
InternationalDivisions
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National reporting
• Departmental Report• External, published on DFID website• Meets requirements of Reporting and
Transparency Act and reports on impact of aid
• Resource accounts• External, published on DFID website• DFID’s official accounts
• DAC reporting• External, published on DAC website• Meets UK’s DAC obligations
• Quarterly Management Report• Internal• Measures progress against DFID priorities
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Statistics on International Development
• Main UK aid publication• Gives DFID aid expenditure and UK ODA• Data by country, sector and funding type• Main source for UK only aid statistics• Based on same data that is reported to
the DAC• Classed as a National Statistic - strict
guidelines for production
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New demands for information – Paris Declaration
Publishing Project Information• All project design documentation
published on DFID website• Increase:
• Transparency• Accountability• Knowledge
CRS++• Detailed project information provided to
the DAC
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DFID’s data collection system
• Single database• Collects all project information (design,
implementation and evaluation)• Used to produce Statistics on
International Development and reporting to the DAC
• Project officers enter data• Coding guidance essential
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Bilateral and multilateral spending
• Any expenditure through a multilateral is flagged
• It is classified as:Multilateral spending if
• Core contributions• Funding of secondees to multilaterals• Capacity building of multilaterals
Bilateral spending if• Non core contributions - Country, sector,
theme or individual project is identified• Core contributions to NGOs
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How to identify sector spending
• Sector codes• DAC has one sector code per project• DFID uses multiple sector coding• DFID sector codes based on DACs
• Cross cutting markers• HIV and AIDS• Gender
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Other reporting issues
• All UK aid untied• General Budget Support
• Reported to DAC as lump sum• UK notionally allocates GBS to sectors
• Spending targets• International and UK• Progress needs to be measured• Appropriate methodologies• In year progress measured
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Other reporting issues
• Monitoring and evaluation• How and where multilaterals use UK
contributions• Other UK government departments
contribute towards UK ODA• Conflict prevention• Debt relief• Environment Ministry• Ministry of Health• Foreign Office projects
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DFID as percent of total UK ODA
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Strengths and Weaknesses of UK system
Strengths Weaknesses
Open and transparent Too many reports
More detail than DAC Differences with DAC
Dedicated statistical resources
Different measures
Easily accessible statistics
Other Government Departments
Burden on project officers