Types of data available

Data that can be found through IATI covers organisations and their activities. An ‘activity’ in IATI is any individual piece of development or humanitarian work, the scope of which is defined by the organisation publishing the data. Under the IATI data standard, activity information should cover finances, location, sector, results, and any conditions placed on the activity. Supporting documents can also be published.

Finances

Find financial information on individual activities as well as organisations’ past and future spending. This includes:

• Activity budget - the expected or committed budget for an activity, which can be broken down into different time periods, for example calendar years.
• Transactions - how an activity is being financed and how the money is being spent. For example, organisations can report who has commited money to the activity, and when the money is received. When incoming and outgoing funds between organisations are linked, the flow of funds can be traced from donor to point of delivery.
• Flow type - the type of resource being reported. For example, a private grant, official development assistance or another financial flow.
• Total budget - the total budget for an organisation’s development and humanitarian work within a year. Organisations can publish this for each of the next three years and break the total down into budget lines.
• Planned budgets - a breakdown of the total budget showing what the organisation expects to spend on individual recipient countries, regions or organisations.
• Total expenditure - the total spend by an organisation on development and humanitarian expenditure, broken down by year.

Locations

You can view activity data by region or recipient country. Organisations can also include sub-national locations. These allow you to map or view the precise locations, using coordinates, where activities are taking place.

Sectors

Discover the sectors or policy areas that organisations work in - such as health, research or gender. Organisations label their activities based on the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s sector list to ensure consistency across different reporting standards. Organisations can also use self-defined sector categories where appropriate.

Results

You can see the results data reported for an activity, including its impact and outcomes. This includes a title, a short description of the result and reference to an indicator that the specific activity is being measured against. Links to result documents may also be available.

Conditions

You can look for any conditions attached to an activity - for example the interest rate on a loan or any specific requirements for funds to be spent on goods or services in a particular country.

Useful documents

Organisations can include background documents that relate to a specific activity, or to their organisation, as part of their IATI publishing. These can include country action plans, results frameworks and annual reports.