How do I link my activity to my funder?

Publishing links between your activity and your funder creates traceability — a visible chain from donors through to implementing organisations. You do this in two places in your IATI activity data: participating organisations and transactions.

Steps to complete

1) Find your funder’s identifiers

Your funder should give you two identifiers: their IATI organisation identifier (e.g. GB-GOV-1 for FCDO) and the IATI activity identifier for the specific project that is funding your work (e.g. GB-GOV-1-300001).

You can find the organisation identifiers of common funders in the table below:

Funder	IATI Organisation Identifier
Belgium - Ministry of Foreign Affairs	XM-DAC-2-10
Denmark - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida)	XM-DAC-3-1
Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs	XM-DAC-7
Sweden - International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)	SE-0
United Kingdom - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)	GB-GOV-1
United Kingdom - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)	GB-GOV-10

If you don’t know the relevant activity to link to for your funder, contact them or search their activity data on d-portal. You can include your funder’s name, organisation identifier, and organisation type in your publication initially, then add the activity identifier at a later date.

2) Add your funder as a participating organisation

Use role = “Funding” (code 1) in the ‘participating-org’ element of your activity.

Include every organisation involved in the activity — funding, accountable, extending, and implementing. An organisation can hold multiple roles, in which case list it once per role.

Also list your organisation (with role = “Accountable” or “Implementing”) and any downstream partners you fund.

3) Add incoming fund or commitment transactions

Reference your funder’s activity identifier as the ‘provider-activity-id’ within each transaction.

Incoming Funds (code 1) = money already received. Incoming Commitment (code 11) = money promised but not yet transferred.

‘provider-activity-id’ can be found within the ‘provider-org’ element of a transaction.

4) Link parent / sibling activities (if applicable)

This is only needed if your activity is part of a programme with multiple sub-activities.

If your organisation runs a programme with multiple activities (e.g. a parent programme and several country-level sub-activities), link them using ‘related-activity’.

Checklist before you publish

• I have my funder’s IATI organisation reference

• I have my funder’s IATI activity identifier for this project

• My funder is listed under ‘participating-org’ with role = 1 (Funding)

• Each incoming transaction includes a ‘provider-org’ with @provider-activity-id

• My own organisation is listed under ‘participating-org’ (accountable or implementing role)

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Example

In the example below, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is being referenced as the ‘provider organisation’ (i.e. funder).

Within an activity transaction, enter the following data about your funder:

• organisation reference (e.g. “GB-GOV-1” for FCDO)

• provider activity id (e.g. “GB-GOV-1-300001”)

• organisation type (e.g. “10 - Government”)

• narrative (i.e. their name)

Figure 1: Where to populate the ‘provider activity ID’ within a transaction in IATI Publisher