Reporting non-country specific administrative spending in IATI standard

Question

Is there a way to represent Administrative Fund spendings? e.g. organization overhead paying for organization's admin/hr functions at HQ, not allocated to specific countries aid/development projects.

Here is sample of our financial data http://data.mcc.gov/raw/finance/ (filter to Admin Fund).

Answer 1

I think the best way to do this is to create a new activity with these classifications:

• recipient-region:
  • code: 998
  • text: Bilateral/unspecified
  • see IATI regions codelist
• sector:
  • code: 91010
  • text: Administrative costs
  • but maybe have a look to check there's not a more appropriate code: IATI Sectors codelist

If there are administrative costs related to a particular project, you could just include that in the description of the transaction.