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Briefing Note on Artificial Intelligence and the Humanitarian Sector

This report is on lessons learned from anticipatory action ahead of drought in Ethiopia in 2021.

This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations, translated into French.

This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations, translated into Ukrainian.

This note describes the technical aspects of the trigger mechanism for Anticipatory Action in the Central American Dry Corridor (CADC).

This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations, translated into Arabic.

INFORM Report 2024: 10 Years of INFORM

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024 contains details on the data available for each location, category and sub-category covered in the HDX Data Grids. It includes a country deep-dive for Colombia and showcases HDX's longstanding partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP). It also provides an example of how climate data is being used to predict the impact of typhoons in the Philippines and trigger anticipatory action.

This technical note summarises the methodology used to calculate the number of people potentially exposed to flooding in Somalia in the 2024 Somalia Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP).

This report is on lessons learned from anticipatory action ahead of flooding in South Sudan in 2022.

Note d'orientation: La responsabilité des données et la redevabilité aux personnes affectées

Nota Orientativa: Responsabilidad de los datos y rendición de cuentas ante las poblaciones afectadas en la acción humanitaria

Quality Measures for Humanitarian Data April 2023 Report by the Data Nutrition Project

This Guidance Note explores data responsibility and Accountability to Affected People (AAP) in humanitarian action. It identifies common data-related benefits and risks related to AAP, explains how humanitarians can implement actions from the IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action and offers examples of joint approaches to this work.

This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the global displacement monitoring model.

This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Drought in Chad.

This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Flooding in Bangladesh.

This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Flooding in Nepal.

This report summarizes the documentation and findings of the peer review of the INFORM Risk Index.

INFORM Report 2023: Sharing Evidence for Managing Crises and Disasters

An introduction to observational rainfall data that describes how to access, analyse and interpret this data in the context of a humanitarian response.

An overview of precipitation forecasts and how to interpret and use different types of forecasts to inform humanitarian action.

A Principled Framework for Responsible Data Sharing Between Humanitarian Organizations and Donors

This Guidance Note provides an overview of the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and implications facing humanitarians and people affected by crises, and offers recommendations to increase cyber resilience within and across organizations and their partners.

One-page handout on HDX (last updated February 2023).

This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Drought in Niger.

This report summarizes the documentation and findings of the peer review of the trigger used in UN OCHA’s Burkina Faso Anticipatory Action framework for drought.

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2023 contains details on the data available for each location, category and sub-category covered in 25 Data Grids. It includes a country deep-dive for South Sudan and showcases the work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) on community mapping. It also provides examples of how climate impact data is being used to predict the impacts of a hazard on lives and livelihoods and trigger actions to mitigate them.

Les Consignes d’OCHA sur la Responsabilité des données

This Guidance Note presents common threats to data security and vulnerabilities in operational data management, and offers a set of recommended actions to improve data security in humanitarian settings.

This paper assesses the technical feasibility of conflict prediction for anticipatory action in the humanitarian sector.

The Centre conducted an independent review of 510 's typhoon impact model for the Philippines, according to our Peer Review Framework.

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #1: CONTRÔLE DE LA DIVULGATION DE DONNÉES STATISTIQUES

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #2: LA GESTION DES INCIDENTS LIÉS AUX DONNÉES

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #3: LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS LES PARTENARIATS PUBLIC-PRIVÉ

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #4: L’ÉTHIQUE DES DONNÉES HUMANITAIRES

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #5: ANALYSE D’IMPACT RELATIVE AUX DONNÉES

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #6: LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS LES TRANSFERTS MONÉTAIRES

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #7: PARTAGE RESPONSABLE DES DONNÉES AVEC LES BAILLEURS DE FONDS

SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #8: APPROCHES RESPONSABLES EN MATIÈRE DE PARTAGE DES DONNÉES

This tip sheet offers instructions and templates for understanding data ecosystems in a humanitarian response.

This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations.

This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in OCHA’s data management.

The Centre conducted an independent review of the UCB Cider model, according to our Peer Review Framework. Cider is an open source toolkit developed by the Global Policy Lab at U.C. Berkeley for training models that use mobile phone data to infer poverty.

One-page handout on the Predictive Analytics workstream of the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data.

Una descripción general de la divulgación estadística (SDC, por sus siglas en inglés), un método para evitar el riesgo de re-identificación al gestionar encuestas con información confidencial y datos de evaluación de necesidades (microdatos).

Cómo abordar incidentes relacionados con la gestión de datos que han causado daño o tienen el potencial de causar daño.

Asesoramiento en el diseño de asociaciones responsables entre organizaciones humanitarias y el sector privado en iniciativas relacionadas con datos y tecnología.

Asesoramiento en el diseño de asociaciones responsables entre organizaciones humanitarias y el sector privado en iniciativas relacionadas con datos y tecnología.

Asesoramiento para trabajadores humanitarios sobre cómo decidir si realizar una evaluación del impacto de los datos, con ejemplos de herramientas de evaluación del impacto de los datos.

Una descripción general de los beneficios y riesgos comunes relacionados con los datos que enfrentan los actores del efectivo y un conjunto de acciones que pueden tomar para mejorar la responsabilidad de los datos.

Una descripción general de los objetivos y las limitaciones en torno al intercambio de datos confidenciales con los donantes y recomendaciones iniciales sobre cómo los donantes y las organizaciones humanitarias pueden compartir datos.

Ejemplos comunes de datos confidenciales no personales y un enfoque para la clasificación de la información y la confidencialidad de los datos para las organizaciones humanitarias.

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #1: STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #2: DATA INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #3: DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #4: HUMANITARIAN DATA ETHICS

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #5: DATA IMPACT ASSESSMENTS

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #6: DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN CASH AND VOUCHER ASSISTANCE

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #7: RESPONSIBLE DATA SHARING WITH DONORS

GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #8: RESPONSIBLE APPROACHES TO DATA SHARING

OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines 2019

OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines October 2021

Peer Review Framework for Predictive Analytics in Humanitarian Response (rev. 2)

COVID-19 Data Explorer Quarterly Highlights Q2 2022.

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2022 contains details on the data available for each location, category and sub-category covered in 27 Data Grids. It includes a country deep-dive for Somalia and showcases the work of the United Nations Population Fund on population statistics. It also has an assessment of the data required for modelling, specifically for developing anticipatory action trigger mechanisms, with examples from Ethiopia, Malawi, Nepal and the Philippines.

The goal of this report is to increase awareness of the data that is available to inform humanitarian operations around the world and to highlight what is missing, as measured through OCHA’s Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform. In a year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on already-vulnerable populations, we saw record-breaking demand for data in the humanitarian sector coupled with persistent data gaps.

One-page handout on the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data (last updated January 2024).

IATI COVID-19 Data: Insights, Issues and Recommendations for Improvement

Complex Systems Modeling for Humanitarian Action - Methods and Opportunities (Nov 2021)

The Centre conducted an independent review of Cooper/Smith’s mobility model for Malawi, according to our Peer Review Framework.

Image used for World Bank Stats for the 2021 Year-in-review