Data management

Step 1: Collection of data

Sida gathers project data from the agencies and ministries that manage

. Data comes in different formats and at different times and includes records from Sida’s internal systems.

The data covers transactions, budgets, statistics, project descriptions, targets, results and required documents. Usually it applies to individual projects, but sometimes contributions are grouped and their transaction data combined.

Step 2: Data compilation

Data from Agencies and Sida’s project data are quality assured using both automated and manual routines.

Step 3: Distribution of data

The verified data is formatted in

and sent to the IATI Registry, IATI Datastore and openaid.se.

Openaid.se is updated monthly with the latest available information on Swedish development cooperation. Some information, for example outcomes for in-donor refugee costs, is reported with a delay. As a result, the final totals for the previous year may not be available until a few months into the current year.

The data shown on Openaid is also available in the IATI Registry and IATI Datastore, either via the tools on each site or through their application programming interfaces (APIs).

Download the data as IATI XML files

API

An application programming interface (API) lets an application request and receive data from a source.

Openaid uses the IATI Datastore API. It provides access to all published IATI data, not just Sweden’s files shown on Openaid.

There is also an IATI Registry API, which provides metadata about files published in the IATI XML format.

More information: IATI Datastore

More information: IATI Registry

Export of data

You can export data from the site. Choose to export either all data for a specific year, the results that match your current filters, or a single activity.

Exports are available in:

• Excel (XLS)
• PDF (on activity pages)