Aligning aid withpartner country budgets

Progress update, March 2014

What is the budget identifier?

• Two required elements, as approved in 2012:– Common code, or “Spine”

• “Rosetta Stone” helping match donors’ sector codes against partner country budget codes• Individual mapping required between Spine and

each country budget classification – Economic classification

• capital v recurrent expenditures• Aiming for automatic exchange of data: IATI

data → (aid management systems →) budget

Mapping from donors, to the Spine, to the budget

http://publishwhatyoufund.org/testarea/tz/mapping/donor-spine-vote.html

Example 1: mapping to a country budget

• Project information from donor system: – Title: English Language Teaching Training– Description: To support the improvement of the quality of

education in primary schools in Tanzania and to increase the number of children, particularly girls, able to transfer to secondary education by improved teaching of early grade reading and numeracy. This will benefit 230,000 children by 2017.

– CRS Sectors:

– Economic classification:

– Spine codes in IATI file:

11220: Primary education (50%)

11130: Teacher training (30%)

11110: Education policy and administrative management (20%)

5.5.5: Social Affairs – Education - Primary (50%)

5.3.11: Social Affairs – Education – Teacher training (30%)

5.3.1: Social Affairs - Education – Administration, policy and planning (20%)

Recurrent (100%)

Example 1: importing data into a country system

Example 2: project mapped to a country budget

• Project information: – Title: Accelerating Efforts to Improve Maternal and Child

Health in Simiyu region– Description: Improve health services for mothers,

newborn babies and young children by strengthening existing health systems, refurbishing health centres and district hospitals, providing training for local government officials and health workers and supporting community engagement activities.

– CRS Sectors:

– Economic classification:

– Spine codes in IATI file:

12220: Basic health care (20%)

12250: Infectious disease control (20%)

13040: STD control including HIV/AIDS (20%)

5.1.1: Social Affairs – Health – Policy, planning and administration (100%)

Capital (50%)

13030: Family planning (20%) 13020: Reproductive health care (20%)

Recurrent (50%)

Example 2: importing data into a country system

Conclusions on the Spine

• Current CRS codes work for 70% of projects– Using 2 CRS codes (rather than “Multisector”)

brings this to 83%• Sub-codes needed for remaining 30%– 20 Spine codes are more detailed than CRS

• The Spine does not require changes to donors’ systems if already using CRS codes– However, more precise sector codes (including

the new sub-codes) would yield better results

Conclusions on the economic classification

• Need guidance to ensure consistent classification of capital expenditure – What constitutes capital expenditure from the

perspective of the partner country, not the relevant Ministry of Finance/Treasury in the donor country.

• Not possible to generate economic classification from existing published data

• Probably need to collect data at source (ie in project documents)– Changes to donor systems may be needed to

capture capital expenditure

Next steps

• Consultations on Spine and capital expenditure

• Finalizing Spine and guidance• Timelines• Country-level case studies of

integration – technical issues– process issues

Mapping Donors’ CRS Sectors against the Common Code

http://publishwhatyoufund.org/testarea/tz/mapping/donors-category.html

http://publishwhatyoufund.org/testarea/tz/mapping/donors-sector.html