Tied aid status

[markbrough]

Description
The tied aid status shows whether the organisation states that this activity counts as “tied” (procurement is restricted to the donor organisation country) or “untied” (open procurement). This can be either at the activity or transaction level, and is only expected if the activity is at least in the implementation phase.

2013 Index tests

default-tied-status or transaction/tied-status exists (if activity-status/@code is at least 2)?

Issues

No issues have been identified.

Questions

1. Should the code of a tied-status have to conform to the IATI tied status codelist?

2014 Index test
We are not planning to change this test in 2014, unless feedback suggests there is a strong case for doing so.

[YohannaLoucheur]

As we have indicated before, the IATI standard does not conform with the DAC CRS way of reporting the tied status (which requires to report a value, not an all-or-nothing status). Canada, and presumably other donors, is not able to report this status in line with the current IATI standard.
There isn't really a short-term solution to this problem for the Index, but I thought I should flag it again, given the "No issues have been identified" statement.

[markbrough]

For 2014

In addition to the 2013 test, we will add a new test, to assess whether the default-tied-status/@code or transaction/tied-status/@code is on the IATI TiedStatus codelist.

Notes

• We understand the issues around the tied status element in IATI, and how it relates to the DAC CRS way of reporting.
• We understand this has been flagged as a change for the standard for the 2.01 integer upgrade.
• The tests will be amended in future years as the standard evolves.