Drive Transparency,value for money and open government

Make British aid more effective by improving transparency, openness and value for money

Actions	Start	End
2.1 Build open societies and institutions in our partner countries
Support interventions that expand choice and empowerment and make institutions more accountable to citizens in at least ten country programmes and report on progress	Started	Mar 2015
Support electoral processes in at least 13 countries over the perriod 2011-15, informed by guidance on electoral assistance	Started	Mar 2015
Support a greater number of DFID partner countries to join the Open Government Partnership during the UK co-chair tenure	Started	April 2013
Ensure all country operational plans include a human rights assessment	Started	Apr 2013
Strengthen the use of media and social media for increased access to information, transparency, accountability and public dialogue in at least ten countries	Started	Mar 2015
2.2 Increase the effectiveness of DFID's approach to anti-corruption and counter fraud
Implement the recommendations of the Independendent Commission for Aid Impact anti-corruption report, including by producing due diligence guidance to explicitly cover engagement at the country level with multilateral and other partners, and ensuring anti-corruption strategies are in place for all DFID country programmes	Completed
Agree Counter Fraud Information Sharing Agreements (ISA) with key international donors and UK national law enforcement organissations	Completed
2.3 Focus DFID's programmes on results
Develop a strategy to progress DFID's Results-Based Aid/Financing (RBA)	Started	Mar 2014
Publish progress against the DFID Results Framework on an annual basis	Started	Mar 2015
Conduct a follow-up to the Multilateral Aid Review	Started	Dec 2013
Undertake a scoping study on the applicability of the Social Impact Bond as a payment-by-results related instrument to encourage private sector engagement in development	Completed
2.4 Use transparency to drive development and increase the involvement of poor people in development worldwide
Launch an Aid Transparency Challenge to promote higher standards of transparency by all DFID funding partners	Completed
Establish an Open and Enhanced Access policy to enable global, freely available access to research funded by the DFID central research budget	Started	Jul 2012
Complete participatory assessments with recipients of cash transfers in five countries to provide evidence on cash transfer programme design, implementation and impact	Completed
Implement beneficiary feedback mechanisms in at least three partner countries	Started	Mar 2013
Introduce new ways to allow poor people to directly monitor and comment on aid projects as part of the Global Poverty Action Fund	Started	Mar 2014