I’m interested to know if anybody “validates” organisation identifiers, either prior to publication, or when using IATI data.
The Org ID methodology specifies how these references should be constructed, but I’m unsure if anyone actively checks the identifiers in terms of
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whether the country/agency prefix is on the “codelist”: http://iatistandard.org/202/codelists/OrganisationRegistrationAgency/
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whether the actual number/reference for the organisation is on the relevant agency list
Anybody anything to share - at either input, output or data use angle ?
Side tangent - if anyone has written any checks, I’d be interested in how they’ve dealt with the fact that agency prefixes can vary in length…
A further answer to Steven Flower ’s second question: CIDA (former Canadian agency) already had an internal process to require the legal entity from all Canadian partners and capture their business/tax number in an internal DB. This process remained in place when CIDA was merged into Global Affairs Canada, thankfully. Unfortunately, the process did not apply to non-Canadian partners.
I started around 2013 to make the case that we should require ALL partners to provide their legal entity. We’ve been making slow but steady progress on the principle (for which I can’t take too much credit, as this is driven more by open contracting-type of considerations); however we’re not yet at implementation. The Identify Org project will be crucial for implementation, as the greatest hurdle is for our in-country staff to find the information about local partners.