IATI Annual Report 2020: Transparency achieved on US$1.28bn COVID-19 aid spending commitments Format 1 Jun 2021 The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) has launched its Annual Report 2020. Data analysed for the report shows a huge commitment from donors and NGOs to improve the transparency of their spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the onset of the pandemic, IATI recognised the urgent need for open data on the responses to the crisis by international development and humanitarian communities. The initiative called for organisations to publish data on COVID-19-related funding using IATI's data standard and issued new guidance on how to do this in March 2020.