Hi all,
I’m looking for some guidance on how to report transfers of funds to country offices that are part of a single corporate entity.
IRC UK disburses money to IRC Inc. All IRC country offices that implement projects are a part of the same corporate structure - IRC Inc. - and thus share the same organisation identifier. Therefore, according the IRC IATI data, money is transferred to a range of countries (using the Country Code) but almost exclusively to one organisation (with a US corporate identifier).
Perhaps it is not a problem (as we can identify funds to countries), but it seems to undermine traceability if we cannot represent a relationship between organisations using the Reporting-org or Transaction elements.
Can we identify individual country offices by creating IATI org identifiers that only correspond to IATI, e.g US-EIN-13-5660870-SL (IRC Inc. org id + country code)?
Are there any other tips on how to go about this? Happy to explain further if it’s not clear.
Thanks,
Daniel
Agreed that organisation identifiers are intended to identify the legal organisation: so if the money flows through the single legal entity, then they shouldn’t be ‘overloaded’ with branch information etc.
Traceability looks like it should happen in this case via activity->activity linkages, rather than organisation->organisation linkages