How is an 'activity' defined?

As the reporting organisation, you decide how to group your work into activities, and you can define what an activity is for your organisation. This means you can structure your IATI data in a way that best reflects your work, noting:

• each activity should be a piece of development or humanitarian work you are doing
• you can use how you break down your work internally to define your activities, for example, an activity might be:
  • a large programme at country or region level
  • a smaller project in a local area
  • the work relating to a particular grant or contract
• each activity can be a different size and scope
• for each activity you should report location, sector and financial information

For each activity you can publish title and descriptions in multiple languages. You should publish in your language and, if possible, the languages of the recipient countries or regions your activity is benefiting.

Put the information about your activities into an Activity File. These pages list the details you should add for each activity:

• Key activity information to publish
• All the activity information you can publish

If you get funding from a donor who requires you to publish to IATI, they may have additional guidance on how you should group your work into activities. Please check this with your contract manager and refer to their relevant guidance. See Donors’ reporting requirements for more information.