What are IATI Codelists?
The IATI codelists ensure activity and organisation information is comparable between different publishers.
Codes for fields such as organisation type (e.g. 23 = Regional NGO; 60 = Foundation; or 70 = Private Sector) ensure that different publishers have unambiguous, comparable definitions they can use when describing aid activities.
The codes use existing authority lists where possible and build on codes published by the ISO, OECD DAC, COFOG and Guidestar.
There are two ways to access the codelists:
- Browse individual codelists and usage notes on the left
- Download codelists in JSON, XML, and CSV format
