Potential Changes: Organisation Standard

This table curates known potential changes for the IATI Organisation Standard.

It is provided to give context and support to anyone interested in the future direction of the IATI Standard. It should not be interpreted as a backlog of items that will definitely be implemented.

For potential changes to be considered, a proposal is required. A proposal can consist of one or several potential changes, but requires clear rationale and impact assessment before any consideration.

At present, the IATI Secretariat will maintain this log for public access. Discussions, considerations, and ideas around potential changes for the IATI Standard are expected to take place in online and other fora, to ensure relevant stakeholders and use cases are clearly articulated and considered.

Element/Attribute	Proposed Change	Rationale	Source	Status
iati-organisation/ organisation-identifier	Change definition from “Machine-readable identification string for the organisation issuing the report.” to “Machine-readable identification string for the organisation being reported on.”	To correct an error in the Standard. The current definition duplicates the iati-organisation/reporting-org/@ref definition.	Identified via IATI Support queries.	Added Nov 2025
iati-organisation/ organisation-identifier	Update the definition to declare that they are case insensitive.	To simplify analysis of IATI data, and avoid mis-matches due to case.	Current secretariat work	Added Nov 2025
@version	Replace the term ‘IATI specification’ with ‘IATI Standard’.	To increase consistency across the Standard.	Current secretariat work	Added Nov 2025 Proposal Nov 2025
iati-organisation/ recipient-region-budget/ recipient-region/ @vocabulary-uri	Change definition from “…While this is an optional field it is strongly recommended…” to “…This is an optional field, but it is strongly recommended…”.	To increase clarity across the Standard.	Current secretariat work	Added Nov 2025 Proposal Nov 2025