State of the Data 2026: Sub-national Location Consultation Event

Join State of the Data 2026: Sub-national Location Consultation Event to discuss how and why sub-national geography is important to aid transparency, coordination and data use. We will open the meeting up for everyone to share their own experiences.

What does this mean for IATI Community?

For the first State of Data analysis of 2026, we plan to share the analysis in terms of the location element.

The IATI Standard has always had this specific function to detail sub-national geography. Any IATI activity can have one or many “locations”, which could be a wide range of things, including:

• an administrative area (e.g. a country, district or region)
• a named place (e.g. a village or town)
• an exact location (e.g. a building or plot of land).

To date, nearly 500 organisation publish over 600,000 locations in around 250,000 activities.

Why does this event matter?

Prior to the release of an analysis of the IATI location data, join this event to discuss how and why sub-national location data is used more widely. We hope to hear from some dedicated use cases and examples, to stimulate discussion and ideas.

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State of the Data 2026: Sub-national Location Consultation Event

📅Wednesday 28th January 2026 10:30am(EST)/ 3:30pm (UTC)

We are interested in hearing about how you and your organisation use sub-national location data. Participants are encouraged to share experiences from both IATI and non-IATI contexts.

Following this, we can then share analysis of the IATI location element in context, to better help us shape discussions and potential actions.

We welcome all members of the IATI Community to join this call.