In November 2011, the United States became a signatory to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). IATI is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that includes donors, partner countries, and civil society organizations whose aim is to make information about aid spending easier to access, use, and understand. The United States has been a member of the IATI Technical Assistance Group (TAG) since 2009, and in that capacity was fully engaged in shaping the IATI standard. The U.S. published its IATI Implementation Schedule in December 2012.

The Foreign Assistance Dashboard will play a key role in enabling the U.S. Government to report its foreign assistance data to the international community, one of the measures the U.S. Government agreed to when it became a signatory to IATI. The commitment to IATI was made on behalf of the whole of the U.S. Government. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the lead agency for developing the U.S. IATI Implementation Schedule, which builds on existing agreements on transparency and enhances the U.S. Government’s commitments to transparency, openness, and accountability. The Foreign Assistance Dashboard will be the mechanism used to deliver a unified U.S. report that meets the IATI standard. The U.S. Government will implement a whole-of-government approach by reporting data in a consolidated manner from all U.S. agencies that possess a foreign assistance portfolio. Agencies will submit data in accordance with the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Bulletin 12-01, which outlines all required data fields needed to satisfy multiple U.S. reporting requirements, including IATI. The Dashboard will convert the provided data to the IATI schema using a crosswalk the U.S. Government developed in coordination with the IATI Secretariat. Refer to the Implementation Schedule to understand the relationships between the U.S. Government data fields and the IATI schema.

U.S. Government foreign assistance data is published in the IATI standard and can be downloaded here. This report will be updated as new data is reported to the Dashboard.

The IATI Registry is an index of data published on international development activities. The registry itself stores no data, but provides a searchable index of metadata, feeds, and links to datasets hosted by donor agencies, development organizations and partner countries. Organizations publish data in the IATI format on their own websites. The IATI registry provides a convenient, single point of access for users to find and stay current with these different sources of information.