Workshops: Working together to improve humanitarian transparency

Date Wednesday 26 April 2017

Time 10.30−15.00 EST

Location UNDP, 304 East 45th Street, FF1507, New York, NY 10017

Washington DC

Date Thursday 27 April 2017

Time 08.30−13.00 EST

Location OpenGov Hub, 1110 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005

About Transparency is a fundamental part of improving the efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of crisis prevention and response. The commitment by Grand Bargain signatory organisations to publish timely, transparent, harmonised and open high-quality data on humanitarian financing by May 2018 – using the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) as the basis for a common standard – sets a clear direction for improving humanitarian data for better accountability, decision-making and learning.

The workshops will bring together humanitarian data publishers and users to explore the rationale, use and benefits of IATI Standard and how it can be further enriched to meet and monitor the needs of the humanitarian community. They will address questions such as:

• What types of data and information on humanitarian funding and activities are needed?
• What are the key challenges and incentives for organisations to publish better data on their humanitarian activities?
• How can humanitarian stakeholders be supported in publishing and using aid data?

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More information

Read our consultation paper Implementing and monitoring the Grand Bargain commitment on transparency  

Download An introduction to IATI for humanitarian actors

Listen to our webinar series Improving humanitarian transparency with IATI

Read the Grand Bargain commitment from the World Humanitarian Summit 2016

Read The Grand Bargain explained An ICVA briefing paper

Read the UNICEF Transparency and Accountability Initiative Brochure