Guidance Materials

Aspects of the IATI Standard require some consideration and review. To assist with this, the following collection of guides are aimed at addressing and detailing specific requirements and needs of the IATI community.

Data Considerations

• Defining an Activity
• Traceability
• Segmenting your data

Basic Activity Information

• Character Encoding
• Dates

Financial Data

• Budgets & Planned Disbursements
• Transactions
• Multi funded projects
• How to deal with double counting

Geopolitical Information

• Geocoding
• Countries & Regions

Identifiers

• Organisation Identifiers
• Participating Organisations
• Contact Information

Classifications

• Sectors
• Namespaces & extensions

Related Documents

• Documents
• Related Activity
• Legacy data

The IATI Registry

XML Schema Tutorial

Last updated on January 29, 2015.