Location data matters. Despite being one of the least published pieces of data on the IATI Standard, it is consistently highlighted as one of the most important. Without information on where donors are spending their money, aid practitioners are less able to avoid project duplication or identify gaps in funding. As part of the recent Tool Accelerator Workshop, organized by the Initiative for Open Ag Funding, a team of staff from GlobalGiving, Development Gateway and Publish What You Fund worked together to see if we could enhance and simplify the publication of this vital, yet lacking, data.

This is a guest blog post by Taryn Davis, Senior Associate at the Development Gateway and part of the Initiative for Open Ag Funding. The original blog was posted on the Development Gateway site on February 13th. The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) has rallied over 500 organizations to publish data on over 600,000 development […]