WP-STAT, the group that defines the codes used by donors for reporting on overseas development assistance recently discussed a proposal to redefine the DAC purpose codes (which are used in IATI as the main source of sector codes) to better align with the Sustainable Development Goals: http://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DCD/DAC/STAT(2015)9&docLanguage=En
Does anyone know if any IATI members (through also being donors who are members of DAC) have been or will be part of these discussions? It would be good to follow this process as it will have a direct and hopefully positive impact on how we report and tag our development projects against the SDGs.
Is it possible within the standard for organisations to assign more than 1 sector code vocab to an activity (at activity level)? ie so if an organisation wanted to use both the DAC code and the SDG Indicator, could they do that within the rules of IATI? I should probably know this but have brain freeze …
Hi Wendy
In relation to the above, someone in our department signaled that the IATI version of the DAC sector codelist has not been updated with the new energy codes that were added some months ago following a WP-STAT decision.
This leads me to believe that the much bigger recent modification to the sector codelists, where over 40 codes were added to align with country budgets (as IATI’s request), has probably not been reflected yet in the IATI codelist either. As we hope to see these codes being used soon, it would be good to update the codelist as quickly as possible.
Beyond this, I wonder whether it would be worth creating a regular watch of WP-STAT decisions related to these codelists so that any change on the DAC side can be reflected in the IATI lists in a timely manner?