Who runs IATI?

Meet the teams that make up IATI’s Governing Board and Secretariat. Both are accountable to IATI members.

Governing board

The Governing Board takes a leadership role in overseeing the implementation of IATI’s work. The board puts recommendations on key budget and strategic issues to the Members’ Assembly for final approval.

The Board is made up of seven members representing providers of development cooperation, partner countries and civil society, non-governmental and private sector organisations. The Board also includes one technical representative. The members of the Board appoint IATI’s Chair and Vice Chairs, who chair both the Governing Board and the Members’ Assembly.

Henry Asor Nkang oversees governance of the Development Assistance Database (DAD), which is the official Aid Information Management System of the Government of Nigeria. He is also a policy specialist with over 16 years experience of working on development cooperation, transparency initiatives, business analytics, research, and process improvement in private and public sectors in United Kingdom and Nigeria.

IATI constituency: Partner Country

Innocent manages the Development Assistance Database for Rwanda and coordinates information about development cooperation flows. He manages devpartners.gov.rw; an online repository of communications between the Government of Rwanda and their development partners. He also serves as the Secretary to the Government of Rwanda/Development Partner coordination forums.

IATI constituency: Partner Country

Thea Schepers is part of the Open Data Team in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She provides internal and external advice on implementing the IATI Standard and using IATI data. As part of her role, Thea delivers training on how to publish IATI data to the Ministry’s implementing partners. Before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she implemented IATI publishing in a development organisation as part of her role as database manager.

IATI constituency: Provider of development cooperation

Joseph Barnes oversees governance of UNICEF's programme monitoring and transparency portfolio, which facilitates the development and use of standards, tools and systems for managing for results, and the use of information on results to enable adaptive programming. Joseph also leads UNICEF’s investment in strengthening the capacity of the monitoring function.

IATI constituency: Provider of development cooperation

Charlie is a champion for data rights, digital rights and human rights online. He is the founder and president of AfroLeadership, a pan-african civil society organisation promoting open data, open governance, data economy and data justice to improve transparency, accountability and citizen participation in African countries. Charlie is also a founding member and is on the Board of Directors for MyData Global and aNewGovernance. He is an advisory board member and Africa Representative of PLACE, a global organisation aiming to deliver ultra-high resolution open maps of the urban world.

IATI constituency: Civil society organisation and other

Winnie Kamau is data journalist and is the President of the Association of Freelance Journalists in Kenya. Winnie is an Editor of the online publication, TalkAfrica and is a Convener for the network, Africa Open Data Collaboratives.

IATI constituency: Civil society organisation and other

Pelle has been involved with IATI since 2010. As a private consultant Pelle has supported numerous organisations to improve their internal information management and to publish and use IATI open data. Since 2015 he has also worked part time with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs on their IATI / open data agenda.

IATI constituency: Technical Seat

Governing Board focal points

Governing Board representatives act as focal points for specific objectives of IATI’s Strategic Plan 2020-2025. Board focal points serve as an important liaison between IATI’s Board and Secretariat, ensuring progress is made towards delivering all aspects of the Strategic Plan.

Objective 1: Drive a significant improvement in the quality of data published to IATI Innocent Mugabe, Thea Schepers

Objective 2: Promote the systematic use of IATI data by development and humanitarian actors Winnie Kamau, Innocent Mugabe, Charlie Martial Ngounou

Objective 3: Strengthen the IATI Standard by consolidating the technical core and maintaining its infrastructure Pelle Aardema, Charlie Martial Ngounou

Cross-cutting action areas to achieve objectives: Outreach, Communications, Community Winnie Kamau, Thea Schepers

Institutional arrangements, budget, administration, policy Pelle Aardema, Joseph Barnes, Henry Asor Nkang

Secretariat

The secretariat includes staff responsible for the day-to-day running of IATI, and implements decisions agreed by the members’ assembly and governing board.

Annelise undertakes the project management and day-to-day coordination of the secretariat. She provides advice and support to IATI governing bodies, and manages new memberships, engagement in global events and outreach with partner countries (developing country governments).

Wendy is the Technical Lead for IATI, responsible for oversight of the IATI Standard and managing the work of the IATI Technical Team.

Anna focuses on strengthening engagement with IATI members and other open data stakeholders, especially in partner countries.

Sarah McDuff leads the initiative’s work on data use and supporting stakeholders in partner countries, including governments, civil society, development partners, and others to use IATI data. Sarah has led the development of IATI's Country Development Finance Data tool, which provides access to IATI data on development and humanitarian activities, presented simply by country, reporting organisation and sector, and enables users to easily visualise or download the data for analysis.

Simona leads on the financial and logistical needs of the secretariat. Simona manages collection of members’ voluntary and membership contributions and disbursement to the secretariat.

Maria provides operational support to fulfill UNOPS’ responsibilities within the IATI Secretariat.

Rohini advises on and implements strategic communications across the initiative. As part of her role, Rohini works on IATI’s website, e-communications, media relations and social media channels, and supports outreach and engagement work.

Sander focuses on strengthening the IATI community. His responsibilities include delivering community events and managing IATI's online community platform, IATI Connect.

Cody manages the delivery of IATI's annual monitoring of the delivery of the Strategic Plan 2020-2025 against its results framework. Cody provides project management support to the Secretariat and delivers activities to improve the use of IATI data.

Introduction to IATI

Case studies

Using the reference site

Standard documentation

Developer documentation

d-portal

IATI Datastore

IATI Validator

Additional IATI tools

Standard overview

Publishing guidance

Standard guidance

Get support

IATI Community

Membership

Present IATI

Who runs IATI?

Membership

Who runs IATI?

Governing board