The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) now has an Open Project Portal to allow open, comprehensive public access to data on IUCN's work in over 125 countries and territories. This new public portal is a part of IUCN’s commitment to increase the transparency of its project portfolio for the Union, project donors and stakeholders and the public.
The Open Project Portal allows open, comprehensive public access to data on IUCN's work in over 125 countries and territories.
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The IUCN Open Project Portal shows financial information as well as how IUCN is performing against the IUCN Programme goals and impact targets, and how it is contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It provides information on projects active as of 2021 at various levels of granularity, including by IUCN Programme areas and impact target, specific SDGs, geography, or by donor.
The new portal also provides project level information to allow donors and other stakeholders to track project progress and find key information on implementing partners and contracts. To further increase accountability to external stakeholders, the Open Project Portal will also publish clear and comprehensive information about project budget and expense flows and contributions to the targets identified in a project’s contracts.
In addition to providing this information on the IUCN Open Project Portal, IUCN is publishing it through the International Aid Transparency Initiative Registry (IATI Registry) to provide the information in the most transparent and accessible way.
IATI (https://iatistandard.org/en/) is a voluntary multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at making information about aid spending easier to access, understand, and use, and is a major catalyst of the open data movement. Open access to aid data helps stakeholders make better-informed decisions and benchmark progress in development projects.
IUCN will update the information on the Open Project Portal and IATI Registry monthly.
