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    About IATI

    Our work involves making data on development and humanitarian spending and projects easier to access, use and understand. Organisations publish information according to the rules and guidance set out in the IATI Standard and this data is freely available and open to anyone in the world.

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    Introduction to IATI

    Read basic information about our initiative.

    • How IATI works
    • Who is IATI for?
    • Why use IATI?
    • About the Standard
    • The IATI story so far

    Case studies

    See how IATI data is used to improve decisions and accountability.

    • Madagascar case study
    • Oxfam Novib case study
    • AfDB's IATI portal improves development investments
  • IATI Standard

    IATI Standard

    The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance on how to publish useful development and humanitarian data. Find out the full range of data included in the IATI Standard and more about its technical format.

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    Using the reference site

    IATI Reference is an ‘instruction manual’ giving details of all the ‘parts’ you’ll need to build your datafiles.

    • How to use IATI Reference

    Standard documentation

    Find details of all the elements and attributes that can be included in IATI data.

    • Activity Standard
    • Organisation Standard
    • Codelists

    Developer documentation

    Explore how IATI data and the schema can be imported and used in different platforms.

    • IATI Developer Documentation
    • IATI Datastore
  • Using Data

    Using IATI data

    IATI data can be an invaluable resource for anyone searching for information on development or humanitarian spending and projects.

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    • Tools and resources
    • Types of data available
    • How do I use IATI data?
    • How to get help with using IATI data
    • IATI data use research
  • Tools & Resources

    Tools and resources

    Use IATI tools and resources to enable you to publish, improve and use IATI data.

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    d-portal

    Search key data on development and humanitarian activities presented in charts, graphs and maps. Recommended for users who are new to IATI.

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    IATI Datastore

    Use Datastore Search to download a wide range of IATI data in CSV, JSON and XML formats. Use IATI’s API to build complex searches.

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    IATI Validator

    Check if your data files align with the rules and guidance of the IATI Standard. Run checks on data files published by all other organisations.

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    Additional IATI tools

    • IATI Registry
    • Country Development Finance Data
    • IATI Dashboard
    • API Gateway
    • Third-party tools and services for data use
  • Guidance & Support

    Guidance and support

    Find out how to publish data to the IATI Standard and improve your data by using our publishing guidance.

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    Standard overview

    Understand what data you can publish to IATI.

    • Key qualities of IATI data
    • What data should I publish?
    • Donors' reporting requirements

    Publishing guidance

    Understand how to create, check and publish your IATI files.

    • Publishing checklist
    • How to create your IATI organisation identifier
    • Data quality and visualisation

    Standard guidance

    Find guides on to how interpret specific areas of the IATI Standard.

    • COVID-19 related data
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    Get support

    Contact the IATI Helpdesk with questions about using and publishing IATI data, and other technical enquiries.

  • Get Involved

    Get Involved

    Find out how to join IATI as a member, engage with IATI’s community and access useful resources about the initiative.

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    IATI Community

    Engage in IATI's Communities of Practice.

    IATI Connect

    Membership

    Discover the benefits of joining IATI as a member.

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    Present IATI

    Access custom presentation materials on IATI.

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    • IATI Videos
    • IATI Membership Pack
    • Working Groups
    • External resources
  • Governance

    Governance

    IATI is governed and funded by our members and run by the Governing Board and Secretariat.

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    Who runs IATI?

    Meet the Governing Board and Secretariat and understand their roles and responsibilities.

    Governing Board and Secretariat

    Membership

    Discover the benefits of joining IATI as a member.

    List of members
    • IATI future hosting arrangements post 2022
    • IATI Strategic Plan 2020-2025
    • Finances
    • IATI workplan
    • Annual reports
    • Governance documents
    • Members’ Assembly
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Reference

  • IATI Developer Documentation
  • (GitHub) Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
  • Code of practice
  • Codelist API
  • Design principles
  • Developer Community
  • Developer contributions
  • Guidance
  • IATI Normative and Non-normative content
  • IATI Software Deprecation Process
  • IATI Software Versioning Protocol
  • IATI Standard (Single Source of Truth)
  • IATI code examples
  • Non-functional Requirements
  • Notes about IATI Python Code
  • Open source tools: IATI GitHub
  • Security considerations
  • Useful XQuery queries
  • Guidance and support
  • IATI Developer Documentation
  • Open source tools: IATI GitHub

Open source tools: IATI GitHub

IATI is an open data standard and all internal IATI software tools are open source and available for anyone to use from IATI’s GitHub organisation account. Please note that some of these repositories are inactive and may exist only for archive purposes. There may be rare instances of code that have yet to make it into IATI’s GitHub organisation account, but it is our desire and intention for all IATI code to be there. The following are active repositories.

IATI Standard repositories:

  • IATI-Standard-SSOT: main repository used to collate and build the documentation pages for the IATI Standard. This also contains the rest of the submodules.

  • IATI-Schemas: constraints on the structure and contents of IATI XML.

  • IATI-Codelists: core codelists to the IATI Standard.

  • IATI-Rulesets: additional instructions for IATI publishers.

  • IATI-Extra-Documentation: additional guidance and documentation on the IATI Standard.

  • IATI-Codelists-NonCore: codelists used by the IATI Standard, but not subjected to the same change-control process.

  • IATI-Guidance: guidance and documentation that is not focused on IATI XML.

  • IATI-Upgrades: record of the process for and changes made to the IATI Standard over time.

Application layer Unified Platform repositories:

  • IATI-refresher

The IATI-refresher contains the applications that control the flow of the system; identifying, downloading and refreshing datasets from the Registry, and then making sure they are validated and, if appropriate, subsequently indexed into the Datastore, using services provided by the repositories below.

IAIT Standard website repositories:

  • IATI-Standard_Website: Django and Wagtail website for IATI.

  • IATI-Reference_Generator: Python application to generate the IATI Standard reference pages for the website

Validation specific repositories:

  • IATI-Validator_API: Pure JavaScript IATI validator implementation.

  • IATI-Validator_Services: Backend microservice provider for the IATI Validator on the Unified Platform.

  • IATI-Validator_Web: IATI Validator Vue.js Front-end application.

Datastore specific repositories:

  • IATI-Datastore_Search: Front End Search Application for the IATI Datastore.

  • IATI-Datastore_Services: Datastore utility functions for administrators (e.g. reindex Solr) and backend for Datastore Search.

  • IATI-Flattener: IATI document flattener, prepares IATI docs for Indexing into Solr for the IATI Datastore.

Infrastructure layer Unified Platform Repositories:

  • IATI-Datastore_SOLR_Configs: IATI Datastore SOLR configurations, includes solr schemas and solrconfig.xml files for each collection.

  • IATI-SOLR_K8S: Kubernetes deployment manifests and information for IATI Solr Production instance

  • IATI-APIM_IATI_Gateway: IATI API Management instance repo (aka IATI API gateway).

IATI tools and website not yet part of the Unified Platform

  • IATI-Dashboard: dashboard for various metrics, generated nightly from IATI data.

  • IATI-Stats: application for generating JSON stats to feed the IATI Dashboard.

  • IATI-Registry_Refresher: scripts to pull IATI data from the IATI registry using the CKAN API.

  • IATI-Publishing_Statistics: tables and files presenting summaries of all published IATI data.

These repositories are managed and maintained by the IATI Technical Team. If you wish to contribute to them, please follow the Developer contributions guidelines and, for further questions, email code@iatistandard.org.

Additional IATI tools managed by external vendors:

  • ckanext-iati: CKAN extension for the IATI Registry.

  • d-portal: visualisation platform for IATI data.

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