May 31, 2020

Madagascar government uncovers $830 million of previously unknown ‘aid.’

The Government of Madagascar used the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data to discover millions of dollars of spending on development and humanitarian projects in the country, that were previously unknown to them. See this 2021 report from the IATI https://iatistandard.org/en/about/case-studies/madagascar-casestudy/

Madagascar has a Aid Monitoring Platform (AMP), but many international organizations working in Madagascar simply do not report their activities or budgets to the AMP. With the work of IATI, not only has additional funding been identified, but the government has also discovered organisations they had not been aware were active in Madagascar. With contact information shared through IATI, this has enabled government staff to make contact with them, and start working together to deliver a coordinated effort to help improve development effectiveness.