<p>Non-governmental organisations (NGO) in receipt of funding from DFID's major grant schemes must meet new international transparency standards for UK funding from April 2013. The Department co-funds a transparency programme supporting UK NGOs to comply with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standard and to improve NGO disclosure of project, governance and performance information.</p><p>In its multilateral aid review, the Department assessed transparency as a priority area for reform. Since then, multilateral organisations have made considerable progress on transparency, with a significant number already publishing data in accordance with the IATI standard.</p>