Type of Organisations

Definition

Within the IATI organisation standard three types of organisations can be declared:

• reporting-org - the organisation publishing the data within the organisation file.
• iati-organisation - the organisation that the data is about
• recipient-org - the organisation in receipt of budgets specified in recipient-org-budget

Considerations

When using the IATI organisation standard to declare organisations, the following should be considered:

• In many cases, an organisation file will contain information from the perspective of a single iati-organisation. Most commonly, this will be the same as the reporting-org
• Multiple iati-organisation can be described in a single organisation file.
• reporting-org and iati-organisation should include reference to their associated unique iati-identifier
• For reporting-org, inclusion of the OrganisationType code is recommended.
• An iati-organisation should include a name element - free text title of the organisation
• Single or multiple recipient-org entries can be recorded.
• For each recipient-org multiple forward looking recipient-org-budget can be recorded.

Further Guidance

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