What information should I publish?

Organisation and Activity files

The IATI Standard is built around two types of data file: the Organisation file and the Activity file.

Organisation

Your Organisation file includes information such as your organisation's name, IATI organisation identifier, forward-looking budgets, total expenditure, and links to documents like annual reports and strategies. Budgets can be broken down by country and recipient organisation.

Activity

Your Activity file contains information about your development and humanitarian work (referred to as “activities” in IATI). This includes details on where your activities take place, how they are financed, and what results they achieve.

Your data should not be limited to official development assistance (ODA). Ideally, you should include all activities related to development cooperation or humanitarian work.

We recommend starting with the mandatory and recommended data elements, and then adding more detail as you become familiar with IATI.

For guidance on creating activities, see:

• How is an ‘activity’ defined?
• Creating IATI identifiers

Topic-specific guidance

For detailed guidance on interpreting elements of the IATI Standard or tagging your activities (for example, by Sustainable Development Goals), see our topic-specific guidance.