The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation has officially moved to the Good category in the index produced by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation is officially among the donors in the Good category of the 2024 Aid Transparency Index (ATI), the only independent index measuring the transparency of aid from the world’s leading development aid agencies, created by the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), in collaboration with Publish What You Fund. The announcement was made during the official launch of the ATI 2024 held at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution in Washington, USA.
AICS became an IATI member and published IATI data for the first time in June 2017 and is responsible for IATI publication in Italy.
The Aid Transparency Index is composed of 35 indicators grouped into 5 components that collect and analyze data on the structure and individual activities of national and international organizations, including bilateral, multilateral, and philanthropic entities that have chosen to publish data in a standardized, harmonized, comparable, and open format, in a centralized repository accessible to all. The detailed report of the 2024 Index on AICS’s performance indicates that the Agency has significantly improved compared to 2022 in the components “Project Attributes” and “Finance and Budget.”
“Transparency represents one of the fundamental values on which the Italian cooperation system is based.” – commented the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Marco Riccardo Rusconi – “The result achieved is an indicator of good governance, accountability, and commitment to transparency by AICS, and therefore of greater credibility and effectiveness of our organization and our actions. This means that data on disbursed funds, funded projects, and achieved results are made public and accessible. A crucial approach also to ensure that all cooperation partners, whether small or large, can more easily and transparently access the public resources managed by the Agency and be its executing partners.”
“This is a highly significant achievement,” – specifies AICS Deputy Technical Director, Leonardo Carmenati – “and it is a sign of commitment and effort entirely by the Agency, in complete autonomy. The milestone achieved, in addition to demonstrating our commitment to transparency, is also an important enhancement of the informational assets and high-quality resources that the Agency produces, increasingly, and makes available to everyone: from manuals, to guidelines, to programmatic documents and sectoral strategies.”
