Hi Michelle -- I can't find UNOSSC mentioned by another publisher. I think it would be great to have a consistent approach in cases where an organisation is hosted by another organisation. I think this is something that we have struggled with for years.

I can't find anything in the current guidance on this, but in the past, it looks like it was advised to tag it on to the end of the host organisation's identifier -- see the section "Sub-units" on this page:
https://iatistandard.org/en/iati-standard/103/getting-started/organisat…

So if XM-DAC-41114 is UNDP, would XM-DAC-41114-UNOSSC be an option?

Alternatively -- I wonder if UNOSSC is organised as a project in UNDP's data, in the same way as IATI is?

Hi Michelle, just to add a legal aspect, would be interesting to know with whom you actually sign the incoming funding contract? If that is UNDP, it is UNDP..

Abdul Riza Any chance you can provide insight on Mark's question? leo stolk we use a "UN to UN" transfer agreement which specifically names IOM and United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation in the agreement. This probably works because neither of us is a registered legal entity in the traditional sense. Although having said that, the correspondence section states UNDP and is signed by someone "on behave of UNDP through the UNOSSC".

Michelle Levesque maybe just suggest UNOSSC to become a publisher, all solved isn't it?

For some reason, Riza isn't able to post in Connect but he did let me know that UNDP publishes UNOSSC as part of the UNDP file. So no new ID needed even with an extension. The UNDP publishing number is sufficient. If it helps users, IOM will use the UNDP reference but the narrative will have the UNOSSC name just as we publish ministry names for governments with the same publisher ID.