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recipient-country

iati-activities/iati-activity/transaction/recipient-country

This is the reference page for the XML element recipient-country.

Definition

A country that will benefit from this transaction. If a specific country is not known the recipient-region element should be used instead.

If transaction/recipient-country AND/OR transaction/recipient-region are used THEN ALL transaction elements MUST contain a recipient-country or recipient-region element AND (iati-activity/recipient-country AND iati-activity/recipient-region MUST NOT be used)

Rules

This element must occur no more than once (within each parent element).

3.6.2: Recipient countries or regions must only be declared at activity level OR for all transactions.

Attributes

@code

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the country.

This attribute is required.

This value must be of type xsd:string.

This value should be on the Country codelist.

Example Usage

Example recipient-country of transaction in an iati-activity.

The @code attribute declares a valid code (AF) from the Country codelist.

<recipient-country code="AF" />

Full example:

  <transaction ref="1234" humanitarian="1">
   <transaction-type code="1" />
   <transaction-date iso-date="2012-01-01" />
   <value currency="EUR" value-date="2012-01-01">1000</value>   
   <description>
    <narrative>Transaction description text</narrative>
   </description>
   <provider-org provider-activity-id="BB-BBB-123456789-1234AA" type="10" ref="BB-BBB-123456789">
    <narrative>Agency B</narrative>
   </provider-org>
   <receiver-org receiver-activity-id="AA-AAA-123456789-1234" type="23" ref="AA-AAA-123456789">
    <narrative>Agency A</narrative>
   </receiver-org>
   <disbursement-channel code="1" />
   <sector vocabulary="2" code="111" />
   <!--Note: only a recipient-region OR a recipient-country is expected-->
<recipient-countrycode="TM"/>
   <recipient-region code="616" vocabulary="1" />   
   <flow-type code="10" />
   <finance-type code="110" />
   <aid-type code="A01" />   
   <tied-status code="3" />
  </transaction>

Changelog

2.01

The sector element was added as a child element of transaction.

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