IATI Activity

Definition

Within the IATI activity standard. the iati-activity is the building block to describe aid.

An iati-activity represents a distinct grouping of information that reports various facts of an aid activity.

A human-readable title and description for an iati-activity can be provided using:

• title - a short, human-readable title.

• description - a longer, human-readable description.

Considerations

When using the IATI activity standard to declare an iati-identifier, the following should be considered:

• Every iati-activity must have a globally unique iati-identifier

• Publishers can decide on how best to structure and segment their organisation data around iati-activity

• Publishers can decide to utilise the hierarchy attribute to represent subdivision of units of aid.

• A publisher can set a default language and default-currency, that is then used throughout the iati-activity. This can be overridden in subsequent elements however.

• The last-updated-datetime date must change whenever the value of any field within the associated iati-activity is updated.

• It is recommended that the title should be concise and jargon-free

• A description can have different focal points, by using the appropriate DescriptionType codelist

• The free-text instances of title and description should avoid use of text in CAPITALS, where possible.

• Both the title and descriptions can be repeated for different languages.

• When an iati-activity is being implemented in a recipient-country where the official language is different to that of the reporting-org it is recommended that activity title and description are provided in all official reporting-org and recipient-country languages