Contact

1750 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20006

Website

https://home.treasury.gov/

Description

OTA provides financial sector assistance in five core disciplines: revenue policy and administration, budget and financial accountability, government debt and infrastructure finance, banking and financial services, and economic crimes. In addition, OTA engages in related areas requiring cross-disciplinary collaboration, such as financial inclusion, IT system development, and auditing. OTA’s cadre of highly experienced technical advisors work side-by-side with counterparts in finance ministries, central banks, tax departments and other public sector financial institutions, typically for a period of several years. Assistance may be provided on a sustained basis by resident advisors, or by intermittent advisors who travel overseas for short term assignments.

IATI identifier

US-GOV-6

Implementation Schedule

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Organisations / agencies covered

Department of the Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance

Timeliness of Data

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Frequency of publication

Quarterly

Frequency of publication (extra comments)

n/a

Units of Aid

OTA allocates, obligates, and disburses funds at the project level, generally defined as an engagement designed and implemented by one programmatic team in one country.

Segmentation of Published Data

Activities are disaggregated into separate files. Activities that report only one recipient country or region are assigned to a single file under the country or region name. Similarly, global activities reporting worldwide as the recipient region will be assigned to a worldwide file. All other activities that report multiple countries and/or regions are assigned to the ‘multi-country’ file. Currently, worldwide and multi-country files are split out so as to conform to the 40mb file size limit.

Data Definitions and References

Published budget figures come from the Congressional Budget Justification - a document sent to Congress by the President in January or February of each year, as required by law (31 U.S.C. § 1105), requesting new budget authority for federal programs and estimating federal revenues and outlays for the upcoming fiscal year and 4 subsequent outyears. Although the title of the document is Budget of the U.S. Government, it represents proposals for congressional consideration. There is not a one-to-one link between budget figures and the financial data - commitments and disbursements - for a given year. The Congressional Budget Justification includes sectors specific to the U.S. Government. The budgets have been mapped to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Development Assistance Committee (OECD/DAC) sector codes in order to improve international usability.

Field Exclusions

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Record Exclusions

It is the policy of the U.S. Government, per OMB Bulletin 12-01, and the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 (FATAA) for agencies to have a strong presumption in favor of openness. FATAA provides the following principled exceptions: 1) When public disclosure threatens national security interests; 2) When public disclosure is likely to jeopardize the personal safety of U.S. personnel or recipients of U.S. resources; 3) When there are legal constraints on the disclosure of business or proprietary information of non-governmental organizations, contractors, or private sector clients; or 4) When data reveal private information about individuals that must be kept confidential consistent with ethical guidelines and federal regulations. When examining information that falls within these categories, USG agencies have sufficient flexibility to protect sensitive information from disclosure, on a case-by-case basis, in order to protect against potential harm while maintaining a strong presumption in favor of transparency.

Thresholds

None.

Other Constraints

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Data Quality

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User Interface

Yes. IATI data are available at foreignassistance.gov

User Interface Website

https://foreignassistance.gov/