Contact

CEO Office, VSO, 100 London Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 6QJ, UK. company.secretary@vso.org.uk +44 (0) 20 8780 7500

Website

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Description

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO's high-impact approach involves bringing people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action, and change lives to make the world a fairer place for all.

IATI identifier

GB-CHC-313757

Implementation Schedule

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Organisations / agencies covered

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). All income will be published and all direct programmatic expenditure will be published (including DfID funding). This represents 100% of income and approximately 80% of total expenditure being reported.

Timeliness of Data

Data will be updated quarterly, one quarter in arrears.

Frequency of publication

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Frequency of publication (extra comments)

Data is refreshed quarterly.

Units of Aid

We will initially report on a Country Office basis. Whilst reporting at a Country level there will be only one level of reporting. As we move to looking at a our activities on a programmatic level, there may be the need to move towards multi level reporting.

Segmentation of Published Data

VSO will publish one separate file per Country Office.

Data Definitions and References

In the future we will look to develop our website to provide the most useful tools to analyse and understand our data. Data has been published in accordance with the IATI guidelines and coding structure.

Field Exclusions

We have published against all of the required fields. Some are fully complete presently and a small number require additional reporting going forward to become fully compliant.

Record Exclusions

We would exclude activities where we have reason to believe that publication would present a credible risk to organisations or individuals involved.

Thresholds

None.

Other Constraints

There are currently no exclusions of Data. But we would exclude activities where we have reason to believe that publication would present a credible risk to organisations or individuals involved.

Data Quality

The data comes from our accounting system, the validity of which is tested and approved on an annual basis via external audit. In addition, monthly internal checks and procedures also ensure the reliability of the data. On top of this, high level data is reviewed on a monthly basis in the form of management reports.

User Interface

VSO will look into ways of making the IATI data as user-friendly possible. Showing our work, spend and Impact in a helpful way to the public.

User Interface Website

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