This is it
The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)and its standard have been a recurrent theme of this website, because we believe that this is a very concrete and relatively simple measure with great potential to improve aid effectiveness.
Again and again OpenAid has been explaining the merits of IATI and its implementation online, in workshops and in discussions with stakeholder. Below you will see, how the IATI Standard actually looks like. After long consultations and discussion the list of information items has been agreed at the IATI Steering Committee meeting in Paris on the 9th of February 2011. The standard is divided into a section on a donor organisation and a section on the activity level, including information on implementing agency, project area, project sector and financial flows. This is the first version of the standard and it may be updated after some time.
IATI Standard Version 1
A. Organisation Information
- Area Annual forward planning budget data for agency
- Annual forward planning budget data for funded institutions
- Organisation documents (Those already published until end of 2011; after this date other documents)
- Annual forward planning budget data for countries
B. Activities Information
- Area
- Reporting Organisation
- Participating Organisation (Funding)
- Participating Organisation (Extending)
- Participating Organisation (Implementing)
- Recipient Country
- Recipient Region
- Collaboration Type
- Default Flow Type
- Default Aid Type
- Default Finance Type
- IATI activity identifier
- Other activity identifiers
- Activity Title (Agency language)
- Activity Title (Recipient language)
- Activity Description (Agency language)
- Activity Description (Recipient language)
- Sector (CRS)
- Sector (donor specific)
- Activity Dates (Start Date)
- Activity Dates (End Date)
- Default Tied Aid Status
- Policy / Thematic Markers
- Activity Status
- Activity Contacts
- Activity Web Site
- Related Activity
- Financial transaction (Commitment)
- Financial transaction (Disbursement & Expenditure)
- Financial transaction (Incoming Funds)
- Financial transaction (Loan repayment / interest repayment)
- Activity Documents (Phase 1 those already published; Phase 2 other documents)
- Participating Organisation (Accountable)
- Financial transaction (Reimbursement)
- Activity Budgets
- Planned Disbursements
- Conditions attached (Yes/No)
- Recipient Country Budget Identifier (this information item of the standard is still under development)
- Sub-national Geographic Location (optional and to be implemented after 2011)
- Text of Conditions (optional and to be implemented after 2011)
- Results data (optional, further explanations below)
The suggested format for results data is a model to allow those that already publish results as data to do so in an internationally comparable format, should they so wish. Should future international agreements elsewhere on results data supersede the suggested data format, this will be updated accordingly.
