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Organisations involved in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic are encouraged to publish data on their spending and activities using the IATI Standard. See COVID-19 IATI publishing guidance.

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IATI Identifier

Definition

Within the IATI activity standard, the iati-identifier is the unique reference for an an iati-activity.

The iati-identifier is a concatenation of the reporting-org reference and the reference allocated to iati-activity by the reporting-org. Together, these make the iati-identifier

The iati-identifier in the IATI activity standard is not the same as the iati-identifier in the IATI organisation standard

Considerations

When using the IATI activity standard to declare an iati-identifier the following should be considered:

  • The iati-identifier must be unique for every iati-activity within the complete dataset published.
  • The iati-identifier should have no leading or trailing whitespace.
  • It is recommended that no forward slashes (/) or spaces should be contained within the iati-identifier
  • It is recommended to avoid spaces and non-ascii characters.
  • For example:
    • AA-AAA-123456789-ABC123 is preferable to AA-AAA-123456789-ABC 123.

Further Guidance

Please also consider and refer to the Organisation Identifiers guidance when constructing an appropriate identifier.