The activity standard is designed for reporting the details of individual aid activities. An activity is defined by the reporting organisation – depending on who is reporting, it might be a large programme, a small project or another logical grouping of work and resources.
What information is inside an IATI activity file?
The activity standard is the most widely used part of IATI. A reporting organisation will typically produce one IATI activity file per country or geographical region.
The standard supports around 40 different fields, referenced by standard codelists, and designed to capture information about many different kinds of aid activities.
It consists of the following components:
| Container Elements | File Header |
| Record Header | |
| Identification | Reporting Organisation |
| IATI Activity Identifier | |
| Other Activity Identifiers | |
| Basic Activity Information | Activity Title |
| Activity Description | |
| Activity Status | |
| Activity Dates | |
| Activity Contacts | |
| Participating Organisations | Participating Organisations |
| Geopolitical Information | Recipient Country |
| Recipient Region | |
| Sub-national Geographic Location | |
| Classifications | General / Detailed Sectors |
| Policy / Thematic Markers | |
| Collaboration Type | |
| Default Flow Type | |
| Default Finance Type | |
| Default Aid Type | |
| Default Tied Aid Status | |
| Financial | Activity Budgets |
| Planned Disbursements | |
| Transaction | Transaction Type |
| Transaction Provider | |
| Transaction Receiver | |
| Transaction Value | |
| Transaction Description | |
| Transaction Date | |
| Transaction Flow Type | |
| Transaction Finance Type | |
| Transaction Aid Type | |
| Transaction Channel of Disbursement | |
| Transaction Tied Aid Status | |
| Related Documents | Activity Documents |
| Activity Web Site | |
| Related Activity | |
| Performance | Conditions |
| Results |
There are 3 ways to explore the IATI activity standard:
- Browse individual elements of the standard along with usage examples on the left
- The IATI activity standard master reference table
- IATI activity standard XSD schema file
