Open Information and Aid Transparency

Recipients of Oxfam food rations, Lokitaung district, Turkana, Kenya. Andy Hall/Oxfam

Oxfam is committed to being transparent in its work and accountable to its key stakeholders, in particular people living in poverty. We share information with people living in poverty, partner organisations, and the general public, and we are accountable to our staff, volunteers, supporters, donors, suppliers and host governments. The information we publish and how we respond to requests for information are important aspects of accountability.

Aid transparency initiative

We are currently working towards full compliance to the transparency standards of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).

IATI aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. As a result we have started to publish basic information about our projects. This also reflects the commitment to transparency outlined in our Open Information Policy.

Our data

The information we are publishing relates to all our international projects and includes the project ID, project title, short description of the project, project start and end date, country of impact, place of impact (where available), per cent of strategic aims, expenditure in 2010/11 and prior, and revised budget for current and future financial years by project.

This initial set of Oxfam GB internationally comparable data has now been published through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) registry in XML format in line with IATI standards - this is a common data format to allow data users to compare across different organisations across the sector.

Since information in XML format contains raw data and may not be accessible by all, the workbook in the link below gives similar information in Excel format.

The data published includes most International projects that were active in 2010/11. Projects have been omitted from the published list in line with the exclusions in our Open Information policy including for the reasons of staff security or because of harm to our operations.

In future (and at latest by April 2013) we will seek to publish more information (e.g. donor for the project) more regularly (probably quarterly). We will also look to improve the quality of the data published and reduce the level of exclusions.

Download the Oxfam Programme Data spreadsheet (XLS 757KB)

View the Oxfam XML data in the IATI Registry

Explanation of the data set

Data set	Explanation
Activity Number	Internal reference of project
Title	Title of project
Description	Short description of project
Start date	Date project started
End date	Projected end date of project (may change)
Country or Region	Location of impact of project
% Aim 1: Right to Sustainable Livelihoods	Allocation in % to strategic aim of Sustainable Livelihoods
% Aim 2: Right to Essential services	Allocation in % to strategic aim of Essential services (Health and education)
% Aim 3: Right to Life and Security	Allocation in % to strategic aim of Life and Security (assistance and protection to people caught up in conflict or disasters)
% Aim 4: Right to be heard	Allocation in % to strategic aim of Right to be Heard (enabling people to influence decisions that affect their lives)
% Aim 5: Right to be equal	Allocation in % to strategic aim of the right to be equal (primarily addressing gender inequality)
Expenditure prior to 2010/11	Spend in £ in the years preceding 2010/11
Expenditure in 2010/11	Total expenditure in year to March 2011
Revised Budget in current and future years	Adjusted budget in years after 2010/11
Total value all years (£)	Spend in previous years + adjusted budget current and future years

Where the location of impact exceeds a single country, a region name is used. These are mostly self evident but the following regions use Oxfam GB type acronyms: