In 2009, the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, in collaboration with donor-partners, launched the Donor Transparency Initiative (DTI) in six pilot districts of Nepal. The initiative is aimed at strengthening donor transparency and downward accountability. The initiative is aimed at gathering decentralized information on aid flows. It thus not only supports donor coordination and harmonization at both the central and local level, but will also help identifying areas where development partners’ intervention is needed, or, on the other hand, is overlapping. DFID, GTZ, SDC, UNDP and UNICEF have each taken the lead in one or more pilot districts. The pilot districts comprise Accham, Dang, Ramecchap, Rupandehi, Sunsari and Surkhet, which were chosen based on criteria linked to their geographical diversity and the presence of the UN, donor partners and international NGOs.
