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International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
by IATI
The IATI standard is a framework for publishing information on development cooperation activities in a timely, comprehensive and forward-looking manner. All published data should be structured and comparable
Assessment
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Open License Yes
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Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes
IATI is an international effort. No jurisdiction per se
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Stakeholder Participation Yes
IATI brings together donor and recipient countries, civil society organisations, and other experts in aid information who are committed to working together to increase the transparency and openness of aid.
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Consensus-Based Governance Yes
IATI has a GitHub page where the references for the standards rae maintained
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Extensions Yes
IATI allows for publishing of additional data that are not covered by the default IATI elements by using an XML namespace to extend the schema
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Human Readable Yes
Datasets published on the IATI registry can also be downloaded or previewed in an easy to read CSV table
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Machine Readable Yes
All data is published in XML on the IATI registry
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Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No
Organizations can choose when to publish or re-publish their data
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Metadata Yes
IATI has related standards that are associated with the main IATI standard such as The Organisations Standard and The Activity Standard