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iati-activities/iati-activity/description
This is the reference page for the XML element description.
A longer, human-readable description containing a meaningful description of the activity. May be repeated for different languages.
This element must occur at least once (within each parent element).
The type of description being provided. This is not required if only one general description of the activity is reported.
This value must be of type xsd:string.
This value must be on the DescriptionType codelist.
Example description of an iati-activity.
The @type attribute declares a valid code (en) from the DescriptionType codelist.
<description type="1">
<narrative>General activity description text. Long description of the activity with no particular structure.</narrative>
</description>
The description element can be repeated in any iati-activity.
In this example, three different description are declared.
Note - it is optional to include all DescriptionType.
<descriptiontype="1">
<narrative>General activity description text. Long description of the activity with no particular structure.</narrative>
<narrative xml:lang="fr">Activité générale du texte de description. Longue description de l'activité sans structure particulière.</narrative>
</description>
<descriptiontype="2">
<narrative>Objectives for the activity, for example from a logical framework.</narrative>
<narrative xml:lang="fr">Objectifs de l'activité, par exemple à partir d'un cadre logique.</narrative>
</description>
<descriptiontype="3">
<narrative>Statement of groups targeted to benefit from the activity.</narrative>
<narrative xml:lang="fr">Déclaration de groupes ciblés pour bénéficier de l'activité.</narrative>
</description>
Freetext is no longer allowed with this element. It should now be declared with the new child narrative element.
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