About the Data

This platform provides an analytical view of environmental and climate-related development activities published through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).

Rather than reproducing the official IATI registry, the platform transforms publicly available IATI data into a structured analytical dataset designed to support exploration, comparison and portfolio analysis across Africa.

The original IATI activity remains the authoritative source for administrative information, transactions, participating organisations, documents and reporting history. The platform complements that information by providing standardized classifications, harmonized financial indicators and multidimensional analytical views.

The dataset focuses exclusively on development activities relevant to environmental sustainability and climate action in Africa.

Projects are analysed across five Environmental Themes:

• Water
• Ocean
• Agroecology
• Biodiversity
• Climate

Activities are included when they satisfy both of the following conditions:

they are associated with one or more African countries or African regional programmes; they contain sufficient structured or textual evidence to be considered relevant to at least one Environmental Theme.

The resulting dataset is therefore a curated analytical subset of the wider IATI ecosystem rather than a complete copy of all published IATI activities.

The platform covers all African countries together with regional and multi-country activities involving Africa.

Projects explicitly reported as regional are preserved as regional activities. Multi-country projects are included whenever at least one participating country belongs to Africa.

Some activities may also involve countries outside Africa. These countries are considered during analytical processing—particularly for financial allocation—but are not displayed in country-level views, maps or country statistics within the platform.

This approach ensures that African analyses remain geographically consistent while preserving the integrity of the original project structure.

The analytical dataset covers activities with implementation or financial relevance from 2015 onwards.

Projects that started before 2015 remain included whenever they continued to report planned or actual activities during the covered period.

This provides a consistent portfolio view while avoiding the exclusion of long-running development programmes.

Financial information is standardized to facilitate comparison across projects reported in different currencies and with different implementation periods.

The platform provides:

• Total Budget
• Annualized Budget
• Reference Currency (EUR)
• Country-level Budget Allocation where applicable

Budget values shown by the platform are analytical indicators intended to support portfolio analysis rather than accounting or financial reporting.

To ensure comparability across donors and reporting organisations, financial values are normalized to euros using a common reference exchange-rate framework.

The platform relies on official international reference sources, including:

• European Central Bank (ECB)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• United Nations Operational Rates of Exchange

Using a fixed reference framework removes distortions caused by exchange-rate fluctuations and allows meaningful comparison between projects reported in different currencies.

Regional analyses represent an analytical view rather than the original geographic classification published by reporting organisations.

Regional portfolios may combine:

activities explicitly reported as regional; national activities; multi-country activities allocated across participating countries.

Budget allocations are derived from country-level percentages whenever these are available in the original IATI data. When no explicit allocation is provided, the platform applies a transparent proxy allocation methodology to support comparative analysis.

The regional views therefore represent analytical portfolios designed for exploration and comparison, not official donor reporting.

The dataset is periodically synchronized with the IATI ecosystem to incorporate newly published activities and updates to existing records.

During processing, the platform performs several analytical transformations, including:

data normalization; financial harmonization; geographic allocation; metadata standardization; analytical enrichment.

These processes improve consistency across publishers while preserving traceability to the original IATI activity.

The quality of the analytical dataset ultimately depends on the information published by reporting organisations.

Some activities may contain:

incomplete descriptions; generic titles; missing country allocations; broad sector classifications; inconsistent metadata.

Where possible, the platform applies analytical methods to improve comparability. Nevertheless, users should recognise that no analytical process can compensate entirely for incomplete or ambiguous source information.

The platform is designed as a decision-support and analytical exploration environment.

It enables users to:

explore environmental portfolios; compare donors and implementing organisations; analyse thematic and geographic distributions; identify investment patterns; investigate individual projects through Project Intelligence.

The analytical classifications presented throughout the platform should not be interpreted as official donor classifications. Whenever formal verification or complete administrative information is required, users should consult the corresponding official IATI activity record.