This document provides guidance on implementing the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards within an organization. It discusses scoping the implementation, getting data ready, publishing to the IATI Registry, and integrating IATI into existing work processes and organizational culture. The implementation schedule should define what data will be covered, publication frequency, and which data fields will be published and when. Resources like an implementation schedule and process mapping are also recommended to support the transition to more open data practices.

1. Implementing IATI
“Van Forming naar Storming”

2. Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing

4. Steps to take
Scoping and planning
– Commitment from management
– Working group
– Implementation schedule
Get the data in shape
Sign up at the IATI Registry
Publish

5. Implementation Schedule
What programmes and which
phases will the data cover?
When and how often will you
publish?
Which exclusions, thresholds,
and constraints are applied?
Which fields will you publish, by
when, and with what?
What license will you use?
Implementation
Schedule

6. Get the data in shape
Where is the data?
Who owns the data?
Whose support do I need?
How do I prepare these people?

7. How will you integrate IATI into your
existing work processes?
How will your organisational culture
change when you start working
“open”?

9. Integration IATI in existing
work processes
Which departments or partners manage the data?
What is the quality of the data?
What are we allowed to do with it?
What systems need to be adapted?
Do the users of those systems need additional training?

11. Changing organisational
culture by “going open”
Uncertainty on what it means and what results it will
produce
Vulnerability by sharing mistakes
Learning to work organically: agile, collaborative, adaptive
Relation with partners
Differences within your own organisation (countries, units)

13. Resources
IATI implementation schedule
Organogram
IT systems
Information security policy

14. Process Tools
Design tools: personas, storyboards,
customer journeys
Testing tools: prototypes, mock-ups
www.servicedesigntools.org
www.ideo.com/work/human-centered-design-toolkit/
www.designthinkingforeducators.com

15. Route
Questions you need to ask internally
Issues that may emerge as a result of asking those
questions
Challenges in answering your questions and dealing
with the issues
Concrete choice of questions and steps to take with
your work group

17. Brainstorm
WHY?
– Make a list of “why”s you could use
within your organisation
– What do you need or is missing to
support that “why”
Groups of three

19. Plan
Which questions are you going to answer for your
organisation?
What challenges do you foresee and how do you plan
to deal with them?
What concrete steps do you want to take?
How can others in this group help you? How can you
help others?