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Activity Standard

This section details the IATI Activity standard. See here for an introduction to the activity standard.

  • IATI activity elements details on each and every element and attribute of the standard, including relevant code lists, rules and example usage.
  • A summary table provides an overview of all aspects of the activity standard.
  • An example XML file is provided, which is also used throughout the documentation.

Definition

The IATI activity standard is designed for reporting the details of individual development cooperation activities/projects. An activity is defined by the reporting organisation. Depending on who is reporting, it might be a large programme, a small project or another logical grouping of work and resources.

The IATI activity standard is the most widely used part of IATI. The activity standard supports around forty different fields, referenced by standard codelists, and designed to capture information about many different kinds of aid activities.

Organisations publish this data in an activity file. It is expected that every organisation publishing IATI data should include one at least activity file.

A activity file can detail one or many activities, and a organisation can publish one or many files.

Considerations

When declaring information using the IATI activity standard the following should be considered: