The European Commission are looking to streamline their IATI publishing under one account. This will allow the European Commission to communicate with one voice, help external users receive a complete overview of the European Commission’s support to a sector, country or region.
Specifically joint reporting to IATI would allow for:
- Aligned communication and preventing fragmentation between services. Current challenges can for example be seen in the Aid Transparency Index, where each Commission service is assessed separately on its transparency.
- Completeness of information for external users: Joint reporting would allow external users, including the European Commission’s implementing partners as well as their beneficiaries, to improve the overview of the European Commission’s support to a sector, country or region. Partner countries might benefit from EU financial assistance from different instruments managed by different publishing EC services, which are visualised separately in the current state of publication.
- Opportunity to streamline reporting rules: Currently reporting of humanitarian data and cooperation data follows different reporting rules (how to report, what to report) reflecting the difference between humanitarian assistance, cooperation as well as neighbourhood policy. Joint reporting creates an opportunity to engage in a dialogue on reporting methodology and enhance streamlining where possible
As a first step the accounts INTPA, FPI, NEAR will be merged in September 2022. Followed by ECHO later in the year.
We propose that a new IATI Organisation Identifier should be created for a joint European Commission account.
Code: XI-IATI-EC_GLOBAL
Name: European Commission
Description: European Commission’s external support for international partnerships, humanitarian aid, foreign policy and neighbourhood and enlargement programmes as implemented by the European Commission’s:
- Directorate-General European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO)
- Directorate-General International Partnerships (DG INTPA)
- Directorate-General Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR)
- Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI)
URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/index_en
If no objection is received this XI-IATI code will be approved and added on 1 April 2022.
Hi Evgenia,
You don't need to change anything yet, until this proposal has actually been approved you can continue as you have been publishing so far.
We will update this page again to show that it has been approved once we have reached an agreement on which code is best.
Thanks,
Audrey