The first round of publishing will cover data for Development Initiatives Poverty Research aidinfo programme’s funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This is approximately 85% of the incoming funds to the programme.
This is excluding:
• aidinfo work covered by funds from the UK Department for International Development
• all data from the Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) programme
• all work carried out by DI International Ltd.
Timeliness of Data
The timetable for publication of DII data will be as follows:
a) aidinfo initial implementation (covering all projects funded by the Hewlett Foundation)– July 2011. Publication of activities funded by the UK Department for International Development under the Accountable Grant will take place in September 2011. Work on broadening the coverage of the data will continue through to the second quarter of 2012.
b) Global Humanitarian Assistance Programme initial implementation will take place in December 2011/January 2012. All data regarding Development Initiatives Poverty Research should be published by the second quarter of 2012.
c) DI International Ltd data will be published during 2012, however specific dates are still under discussion.
N.B. The organisation file for Development Initiatives Poverty Research will be published once all projects under it are being reported, in order to provide full budgets and documentation.
Frequency of publication
We intend to publish monthly data once we have an automated system in place for reporting. This should be during the first half of 2012.
Activity details can be published once an activity funding proposal has been accepted and the budget agreed with the funder.
Units of Aid
An activity will be on multiple levels, with activity details published at both levels, but documents and transactions and budgets being published on single levels.
i) Programme – parent
Will include documents on the project, including proposals, reports etc, information on funding organisation, and activity budgets
ii) Work stream - child
Transaction level details will be included here (and at a later date Activity budgets)
Segmentation of Published Data
Since the aidinfo programme is very small, we will publish one activity file. It is likely that as other projects under Development Initiatives Poverty Research have their details published in compliance with the IATI standard, that we will segment by project, but this is to be confirmed.
Data Definitions and References
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Field Exclusions
There are currently no exclusions of data.
Record Exclusions
There are currently no exclusions of data.
Thresholds
There will be no thresholds places on the value of activities to be published.
There will be no thresholds placed on transactions published to IATI, however, all transactions will be aggregated quarterly per work stream, and coded to a more disaggregated level. There will be no descriptions for any transactions below £500.
Other Constraints
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Data Quality
The data will go through a basic quality and statistical verification process prior to publication. This will develop as systems are introduced which can automate data publication.
User Interface
There are no plans to create a user-interface for Development Initiatives Poverty Research to make our data accessible for end users, however, when it is developed, we will use a tool being developed by the IATI TAG Secretariat, called the IATI Activity Viewer which will enable users to see our data in an accessible and user-friendly way directly on our website at www.aidinfo.org/open