Contact

Practical Action The Robbins Building 25 Albert Street Rugby, CV21 2SD United Kingdom telephone: +44 (0) 1926 634400 fax: +44 (0) 1926 634401 e-mail: alex.bush@practicalaction.org.uk website: www.practicalaction.org

Website

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Description

Practical Action is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) that uses technology to challenge poverty in developing countries. We find out what people are doing and help them to do it better. Through technology we enable poor communities to build on their skills and knowledge to produce sustainable and practical solutions - transforming their lives forever and protecting the world around them. For more details visit http://practicalaction.org/about-the-organisation

IATI identifier

GB-COH-871954

Implementation Schedule

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Organisations / agencies covered

The IATI data will cover approx 80% of charitable activities but will exclude data for Fundraising, Governance and Subsidiaries.

Timeliness of Data

Data will be published on a quarterly basis, one quarter in arrears.

Frequency of publication

Quarterly

Frequency of publication (extra comments)

Data will be updated on a quarterly basis

Units of Aid

Practical Action will follow a hierarchical structure of Organisation, Region, Country and Project.

Segmentation of Published Data

Practical Action provides a single activity data file containing all past and present activities.

Data Definitions and References

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Field Exclusions

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Record Exclusions

For security reasons, transaction level reporting will be excluded to avoid personably identifiable data that may put staff, partners, communities or offices at risk. Projects will be reported at a minimum country and project level together with details of our funding sources. Only the names of certain donors will be published in order to comply with data protection and to take into consideration donor requirements where some donors wish to remain anonymous, or if this is required under the terms of a contract with a donor. Project level documentation will be selectively published as Practical Action does not wish to disclose any information that may be confidential due to legal or contractual reasons or any information that may harm Practical Action Operations either in the UK or overseas. The intention will be to publish information on projects that are active at the time of publication. Data for fundraising, governance and our subsidiaries is excluded

Thresholds

There are no thresholds for publishing activities (projects).

Other Constraints

For income and expenditure, Practical Action will aggregate and publish the details for certain grants funding specific charitable activities whilst aggregating other grant / funding into ‘other’ category to comply with data protection and to take into consideration donor requirements where some donors wish to remain anonymous, or if this is required under the terms of a contract with a donor. Publication of certain information, for example data for subsidiaries, fundraising and governance is pending but we intend to publish by April 2014. We have provided information based on what our current systems will permit however Practical Action will be reviewing internal data and processes during 2013/2014 in order to streamline our current ability to fill any gaps and fully comply with the IATI standard.

Data Quality

Data is based on operational data from our internal project database/finance systems. It will be unverified and subject to change. Data will be updated on a year to date basis each quarter as we believe this will provide more useful information for the reader.

User Interface

At this stage, we are not planning to create a separate organisational interface. Practical Action welcomes feedback on the information provided. We are also keen to provide user friendly information. Annual Report and Accounts are available at Practical Action website http://practicalaction.org/annual-report-accounts

User Interface Website

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