IATI Data Access Tools

Thanks for your quick engagement on this! With the launch of Connect we intend to shift the sharing of some resources (e.g. list of data access tools, training materials) to Connect – as they are resources that benefit from community inputs and need to be updated frequently. But on the question re: where this shared – really good point here! There are plans to share the link to this list on the IATI website and we will update when this has been done.

This specific list is intended to capture tools that provide access to data published to IATI (using as a starting point a list created by Open Data Watch under an activity supported by the DUWG). We did check the list that you shared and added a couple from there but not all met this criteria (we overlooked the inclusion of your site but it is now added – apologies for this!). If the community would find it helpful to have a broader list of publisher portals (that contain project info) – that may or may not provide access to data published to IATI – we can create a list for that as well! And if there are ones that do indeed provide access to IATI data that we have omitted (e.g. a couple that Maaike has noted), please highlight those specifically and we can add.

The IATI Website is now updated with a link to this page on Connect!

https://iatistandard.org/en/iati-tools-and-resources/third-party-data-u…

Thanks for these inputs! We will add AIDA, the BMZ portal, and this one for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Norad: http://udtilskudd.regjeringen.no/#/en/country?year=2020 The other one for Norway seems to provide access to the data they publish to OECD. :) And it's not clear that the French portal is providing access to data published to IATI (based on the info on the site) but let me know if you have additional info on this one!

Sarah McDuff great if you could add these. I suggest you reach out as IATI secretariat to check directly with the French Foreign Ministry people. More effective than when I do it probably ;0).

Maaike Blom Will see what we can figure out! :)

Since this is just meant to be a list of tools that allow you to access data published to IATI, the Validator is not included here! But perhaps there could be demand for a list of tools that help you assess IATI data quality -- both maintained by IATI and externally developed? If so, we could potentially create a list of those and share on Connect!

Sarah McDuff well, we have been considering the validator as a data use tool so yes, I think we should expand the scope of the inventory.

How is this going to be integrated with the list of tools and guidance on the website?

Melinda Cuzner We've been discussing creating separate lists for tools that serve other purposes and perhaps Petya Kangalova can weigh in on one on tools that help to assess data quality?

And as noted in my comment above, the link to this page is on the website!
https://iatistandard.org/en/iati-tools-and-resources/third-party-data-u…

Sarah McDuff I see, so the plan is not to consolidate them?

Melinda Cuzner Sarah McDuff Agreed Melinda, I also favour consolidation of this product and other resources on data use pages on the IATI website, and maintain it there. Wasn't that what we agreed upon in the TOR's?
Risk is we get two blurred IATI websites. For me the IATI website has clear pages on data use and the resources we offer should beconsolidated there. Links should point to these resources, from Connect and from elsewhere.
At Oxfam we also struggle with triple platforms. Our experience is that you need to spell out very clearly where you keep your resources, and point to them from your collaboration tools and platforms (workplace by facebook, and teams in our case).

Thanks for flagging, Leo! Herman van Loon or theo.sande looks like we can replace OpenaidNL in the list with this new one -- Development Aid Portal?

Sarah McDuff Openaid.nl and nlontwikkelingssamenwerking.nl will co-exist for a couple of weeks. When openaid.nl is depreciated, openaid.nl will show a page referring to the new nlontwikkelingssamenwerking.nl site. nlontwikkelingssamenwerking.nl will be the new portal in which IATI data and results will be published.

Done -- thank you!

Have added! Thanks, Steven Flower !

Hi Evgenia Tyurina ! Yes we will definitely do so soon -- along with sharing more information on both the dashboards (https://countrydata.iatistandard.org/data/) and the custom data download (https://countrydata.iatistandard.org/data/custom/) here in Connect. Thanks for flagging!

Thanks, Thea! I have updated the link and renamed it "Netherlands Dashboards" but let me know if any further changes are needed!

Good question. The AIMS that integrate IATI data are a bit different as some of the data could be from IATI but not all of it is from IATI and not all of these portals are publicly available. And while there are a number that have the capability to import IATI data, only a couple are actively doing so at the moment (e.g. Liberia Project Dashboard). But I do have lists of those with the capability and perhaps we can add a separate list of these here on Connect as well -- for the ones that are publicly accessible. I will come back to you on this!

Agreed. The use of IATI combined with other data is a great development.