Closed markbrough closed 1 year ago
So definitely agree with first two points. Also think LR-CoA
is a better prefix.
On the third point, I was thinking about this before - see point (2) in this post, because indeed there can be changes from year to year. However, I think I am leaning against this because it adds additional costs and the benefits seem to me to be unclear / dealing with edge cases:
LR-CoA_2021-310
is the same as LR-CoA_2019-310
seems quite a bit more complicated than just assuming that LR-CoA-310
is constant. I think this would lead to a large number of duplicate identifiers and would make it a bit more difficult to just select all data where the implementing organisation is 310
I guess generally wary of making the perfect the enemy of the good, especially given what we know about existing IATI tools. Perhaps to make a good decision on this we would need to know if codes are frequently re-used in a problematic way?
Yep, understood - is a good compromise to just pick the CoA from one year e.g. CoA_2021 and not bother to add any others, that way:
RE Boost:
Covered in #52 and implemented in: https://gov-id-finder.codeforiati.org/
Rationale
There have been many discussions over the years of how to identify public bodies, but they haven't gotten us to an easy way of categorising government public bodies. In this discussion, I proposed using the codes used in government national budgets / charts of accounts. I haven't seen or read anything since then that dissuades me from the idea that this is the best, most sustainable, and most reliable way of coding public bodies.
This is the "missing piece" of being able to identify organisations in IATI data. For private companies, NGOs, donors and multilateral institutions, there is generally a methodology that already exists:
Reliable, stable, authoritative codes for public bodies already exist: the government chart of accounts. These codes are almost always visible in the national budget, which is always a public document.
Proposal
LR-GOV-310
.For Liberia, the file would be
LR.csv
, and some sample data might be:Screenshot: Liberia FY20/21 national budget - extract from p3![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/688113/113610710-02dad780-963d-11eb-8c54-7c588a8ec8f2.png)