How do I create an organization file?

Reporting Organisation: This is auto generated from the information that had been given when registering to AidStream

Organisation Identifier: This is also auto generated from the details that have been given in registration. It is a combination of your registration number and the agency you are registered to. Can only be edited in the settings.

Organisation Name and multiple languages: This is your organisation name. If all the name name variations were given then the names can be displayed in different languages when you point your cursor at it. This can be changed in the settings panel organisation information tab, by adding organisation name in other languages below organisation name.

This much information is enough to finish up your organisation profile. By clicking ‘complete’ then ‘verified’ and ‘publish’ you will create a organisation file for your organisation in the IATI registry. Any changes to the organisation information will require re saving some information and republishing the organisation file to update the your profile in the registry.

There are other information that you can add to your organisation file they are explained here.

Budget

• Total-budget - total annual planned budget of the iati-organisation.
• Recipient-org-budget - budget for disbursements to another organisation.
• Recipient-country-budget - budget for each country in which the iati-organisation operates
• Recipient-region-budget - budget for each region in which the iati-organisation operates
• Total expenditure-planned expenditure of the iati-organisation.

It is recommended that budgets are forward-looking.It is recommended, where possible, that budgets are presented for the next three financial years.

When presenting multiple budgets, the relevant budget element should be repeated accordingly.It is possible to report periods other than financial years, but this is not recommended. Financial periods are presented using the period-start and period-end dates.It is expected that financial years appropriate to the relevant iati-organisation would be described.It is strongly recommended that the period-start and period-end of the financial years described for any recipient-country-budget match the budgetary/planning cycle of therecipient-country.It is possible to report budget values in multiple.. The default-currency can be set in the iati-organisation element. Should subsequent budgets be in the same currency then there is no need to restate. When declaring a value-date for any budget, this date must be in the past.

Documents

In the IATI organisation standard, documents that relate to the organisation/agency would be linked to. iati-activity specific documents are published via the IATI activity standard. All document-link should be presented in the form of URLs (eg:http://example.org/exampledocument.odt). The URL must resolve to a valid internet address that provides direct access to the document in question.

Attention should be paid by the publisher to any links that become obsolete. If the documents are in different languages, which are available at different URLs, then repeat the document-link element.

If the same document has multiple languages within it, then repeat the language element. For every document presented either a title or category is expected (or both).The title element can be repeated for different languages, regardless of the language of the actual document.The free-text instances of title should avoid use of text in CAPITALS, where possible.

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