How to implement IATI?

In the previous blogpost I described the main reasons why it is in the interest of NGOs to publish their data in the IATI standard. NGOs will not have to publish all data fields proposed by the IATI standard because many of those fields are not applicable. To provide a minimum level of detail, NGOs should at least provide the following information: Activity Number/Project ID, Title, Project Description, funding organisation or donor, location, other organizations involved, the total project value in financial terms, the dates and values of expenditures, dates and values of disbursements, the start and end date of a project and links to related project documents that are already published.

The effort and costs involved to actually implement the IATI standard will vary from one NGO to another. For smaller and even mid-size NGOs the use of online tools for implementation is a very good option to keep costs and hassle low.The data can be entered either manually or by uploading an excell spreadsheet. Watch this video of the OpenAidRegister on how your NGO can publish to IATI.
Alternatively you may also check out the Aidstream website and publish your data via this tool.