How this appears in an IntegrityFile report
When relevant to the country, donor, currency, bank route, procurement context, or entity type, the report may document sanctions and restricted-party checks in the source log. A typical entry records the list name, search date, entity names searched, aliases or acronyms searched, key officials searched, match result, confidence level, and any false-positive logic.
A possible match is treated as a signal requiring review, not as an automatic conclusion. Reviewers should confirm identifiers, check whether the match is the same person or entity, document why a result was dismissed or escalated, and follow their organization's required sanctions, legal, donor, safeguarding, procurement, or finance process.
Baseline global sources
| Source | Why NGO teams care | Use in a review |
|---|---|---|
| UN Security Council Consolidated List | Baseline global reference for names listed under Security Council sanctions regimes. | Search the legal name, local-language name, acronym, former names, and relevant key officials. |
| UN Security Council Consolidated List Search | Official search interface for UN-listed individuals and entities. | Use for name searches and record the search date and match settings where possible. |
Major donor and jurisdiction sources
These sources matter when funding, payments, banking, staff, registration, procurement, or program activity touches the relevant jurisdiction. Coverage should be configured to the user's donor requirements and operating context.
| Source | Why it matters | When to prioritize it |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Treasury OFAC Sanctions List Search | Important for U.S. funding, U.S. nexus, U.S. banks, USD payments, and U.S. donor requirements. | Search organization names, former names, officials, owners, signatories, and close aliases. |
| OFAC Sanctions List Service | Provides downloadable OFAC list data and list versions. | Useful for documenting which OFAC data source/version was referenced. |
| U.S. Consolidated Screening List | Aggregates several U.S. restricted-party and export-control lists. | Relevant for procurement, technology, goods movement, export-control, and U.S. nexus contexts. |
| EU Sanctions Map | Useful for EU restrictive-measure context and EU or EU-member-state donor requirements. | Use to understand EU regimes, country context, and links to EU measures. |
| EU financial sanctions resources | Relevant for EU-funded projects, EU banking nexus, EU-based organizations, and EU financial sanctions controls. | Document searches against EU financial sanctions data where applicable. |
| The UK Sanctions List | Important for UK-funded work, UK banking, UK operations, and FCDO-linked funding. | Use the UK Sanctions List as the current UK public reference rather than older HMT/OFSI consolidated-list wording. |
| Canada consolidated sanctions list | Relevant for Canadian NGOs, Canadian donor funding, Canadian banks, and Canada-linked operations. | Check when the customer, donor, payment route, or operating nexus is Canadian. |
| Australia DFAT Consolidated List | Relevant for Australian NGOs, DFAT funding, Australian banks, and Australia-linked work. | Check where Australian funding, registration, banking, or activity is relevant. |
| Switzerland SECO sanctions and embargoes | Useful where Geneva, Swiss banking, Swiss donors, or Swiss registration create a Swiss nexus. | Check where Swiss legal, banking, or donor exposure exists. |
| France national asset-freeze register | Relevant for French NGOs, French public funding, French banking, and France-linked projects. | Use when a French donor, bank, office, or implementation nexus is present. |
Debarment, ineligibility and exclusion sources
Debarment and exclusion lists are not the same thing as financial sanctions, but they are highly relevant to partner, vendor, grantee, procurement and subcontractor files. A listed party may be ineligible for donor-funded contracts, procurement, or project activities under specific rules.
| Source | Why it matters | Review note |
|---|---|---|
| World Bank Debarred Firms and Individuals | Identifies firms and individuals ineligible to participate in World Bank-financed contracts during the listed period. | Record the entity, country, period, grounds, and whether cross-debarment may apply. |
| Asian Development Bank sanctions list | Relevant for ADB-financed procurement, project partners, suppliers, and consultants. | Check names, affiliates, key people, and cross-debarment notes. |
| African Development Bank debarred and sanctioned firms | Relevant for AfDB-financed projects and Africa-focused procurement due diligence. | Document list status, sanction period, and whether the party is the same legal entity. |
| Inter-American Development Bank sanctioned firms and individuals | Relevant for IDB-funded work and Latin America or Caribbean procurement contexts. | Check entity and individual names, affiliates, and country identifiers. |
| EBRD ineligible entities | Relevant for EBRD-financed activities and cross-debarment awareness. | Review legal identity, sanction dates, and listed affiliates. |
| AIIB debarment list | Relevant for AIIB projects, procurement, and activities. | Confirm whether the party is the same entity and whether the sanction period is active. |
| SAM.gov exclusions | Relevant for U.S. federal funding, U.S.-funded procurement, and U.S. vendor eligibility checks. | Use where U.S. federal requirements apply; record identifiers and exclusion type. |
| EU EDES public exclusion information | Relevant for EU-budget contracts and grants where public exclusion records are available. | Use public EDES records where available; some EDES information is not publicly accessible. |
How reviewers should handle possible matches
- Do not treat a name-only hit as confirmed. Compare legal name, former names, aliases, acronym, address, country, date of birth, registration number, directors, owners, signatories, and known locations.
- Check whether the hit concerns the entity itself, a related entity, a director, a board member, a beneficial owner, a donor, a vendor, a subcontractor, or a historical name.
- Record false-positive logic. Common reasons include same name but different country, unrelated acronym, different sector, different date of birth, unrelated address, or no shared leadership.
- Escalate confirmed or plausible matches under the customer's sanctions, legal, procurement, finance, donor, or safeguarding process before payment, signing, award, onboarding, or renewal.
- Preserve the source link, access date, search terms, and screenshots or export references allowed by policy so the partner file remains auditable.
Important limitations
IntegrityFile does not certify sanctions clearance, eligibility, legal compliance, or suitability. It provides source-linked public references and risk signals for human review. Formal sanctions screening, legal advice, donor clearance, vendor eligibility checks, banking controls, and internal approvals remain the customer's responsibility.
Coverage depends on source availability, licensing, jurisdiction, donor requirements, customer configuration, data quality, transliteration, name variants, local-language availability, and whether a source is public. Some donor and government exclusion information may be internal, restricted, paid, or available only to authorized users.