IATI Resources

IATI resources

Resources for NGOs on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) are held centrally on the IATI Knowledge Base.

The Knowledge Base is the central repository for information and support on IATI. There are sections covering a range of related issues, including one for NGOs.

By signing up for a user account you can:

• Log into the site
• Get notifications when new content is added by subscribing to particular sections
• Post queries and track their progress
• Comment on the advice and ideas in the Knowledge Base
• Post new topics for discussion

The for NGOs section includes:

• Official DFID guidance on IATI for Programme Partnership Agreement and Civil Society Challenge Fund/Global Poverty Action Fund grantees and materials from Bond workshops
• Five steps to becoming IATI compliant - an NGO-specific document on organisational process
• On the path to transparency - a methodology for publishing IATI-compliant open data from Development Initiatives Poverty Research based on their experience of publishing IATI-compliant data, it covers issues from how to set up an internal working group for IATI to mapping data between internal systems
• FAQs for DFID grantees (regularly updated by DFID, the IATI Technical Working Group and Bond. If you have a question that is not covered in the FAQs please email Nicole Neumeister)
• Guidance on developing an open information policy
• The Implementation Schedule template for NGOs publishing to the IATI Standard

Other useful sections:

• Information from NGOs who have publised data to the IATI standard, such as Development Initiatives and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance
• Technical basics, demystifying some of the data and IT issues

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