New d-portal features Enhance Traceability and Data Quality

  • Nov. 25, 2025

The IATI Secretariat is pleased to announce three significant product improvements to d-portal, IATI's data search tool. The updates cover organisation visibility, data quality, and experimental network mapping and are critical steps in improving the usefulness of IATI data.

The changes respond to recent discussions with IATI’s community and the initiative’s State of the Data dialogues.

1. New Visibility for Participating Organisations

For the first time in an IATI tool, users can now easily find and list Participating Organisations for any given search. They describe who is actually involved in the development and humanitarian activity— not just who is reporting the data.

  • This feature moves beyond only focusing on the Reporting Organisation (reporting-org) to explicitly surface the funding and implementing partners described within IATI activity data.
  • It allows users to generate lists of the specific organisations funding and delivering aid and humanitarian activities, revealing the full breadth of the IATI delivery chain.
  • The data used to provide names for these organisations is filtered by the list generated through the State of the Data work, building on earlier efforts to improve organisation referencing.

Read more: New Visibility for Participating Organisations

2. Improved Activity Status Display

The display of activity status in d-portal has been updated to provide a clearer picture of data quality by directly reflecting the data as published.

  • d-portal now clearly displays the publisher’s direct declaration of the activity’s lifecycle stage (e.g., Implementation, Finalisation, Closed).
  • This replaces the old method of inferring status from only the activity dates (e.g., assuming "Ended" if an end date was present).
  • By presenting the published status, the tool helps publishers and data users alike identify where declared status and activity dates might be out of sync. This is a crucial step in showing a true picture of the data.

Read more: Improved Activity Status Display

3. Experimental Activity Network Stream

An experimental feature has been enabled to visualise an activity's network connections in a single, continuous stream.

  • This groundbreaking view maps direct relationships (parent/child) and cross-publisher traceability, where activities from multiple publishers are linked.
  • The results vary - from clear, sensible networks to impenetrable ones - which offers crucial insight into data quality and usage.
  • This feature is intended to open up discussion on the value of networked data and champion good use cases, helping to refine future tool use and data needs.

Read more: Experimental Activity Network Stream

Next Steps

The IATI Secretariat encourages the IATI community to explore these new features on d-portal today and provide feedback, which is vital to inform future updates.