From Feedback to Action: Enabling a Collective Response in CAR
Cómo abordar incidentes relacionados con la gestión de datos que han causado daño o tienen el potencial de causar daño.
Revision of the OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines, January 2025.
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #2: DATA INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
Guidance Note on Data Responsibility in Public-Private Partnerships in Arabic
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.
Guidance note on data security in operational data management.pdf
Quality Measures for Humanitarian Data April 2023 Report by the Data Nutrition Project
2023_HDX_Quality Measures Sprint Report_Final.pdf
Cholera and the Case for Anticipatory Action: Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the global displacement monitoring model.
Model Report - Displacement global monitoring.pdf
Guidance Note on Statistical Disclosure Control, Arabic Translation
Guidance Note on Statistical Disclosure Control, Arabic Translation.pdf
One-page handout on the Predictive Analytics workstream of the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data.
Predictive Analytics handout - UN OCHA Centre Humdata.pdf
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #3: DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #7: PARTAGE RESPONSABLE DES DONNÉES AVEC LES BAILLEURS DE FONDS
A Principled Framework for Responsible Data Sharing Between Humanitarian Organizations and Donors
A Principled Framework for Responsible Data Sharing Between Humanitarian Organizations and Donors.pdf
HDX Signals: Alerting Humanitarians to Deteriorating Crises
Nota Orientativa: Responsabilidad de los datos y rendición de cuentas ante las poblaciones afectadas en la acción humanitaria
COVID-19 Data Explorer Quarterly Highlights Q2 2022.
FRENCH WORKING DRAFT - Data Responsibility in Rapid Scale Down or Closure of Operations
FRENCH WORKING DRAFT - DRWG - Data Responsibility in Rapid Scale Down or Closure of Operations.pdf
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.
Briefing Note on Artificial Intelligence and the Humanitarian Sector
An overview of precipitation forecasts and how to interpret and use different types of forecasts to inform humanitarian action.
Climate Guidance Series: Precipitation Forecasts
This document summarizes the documentation and findings of the peer review of the global Conflict Alert System (CAST) that has been developed by Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED).
Guidance Note on Data Security in Operational Management in Arabic
SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #4: L’ÉTHIQUE DES DONNÉES HUMANITAIRES
This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations.
Tip Sheet on Data Security in Operational Data Management.pdf
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.
OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines October 2021
OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines_2021.pdf
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.
Guidance Note on The Implications of Cyber Threats for Humanitarians.pdf
This report is on partnering with META to give humanitarians open access to population data.
OCHA-META final Impact story - 29.10.2024.pdf
IATI COVID-19 Data: Insights, Issues and Recommendations for Improvement
This report is on lessons learned from anticipatory action ahead of drought in Ethiopia in 2021.
Acting early when the world isn’t watching -- Lessons from anticipatory action in Ethiopia in 2021.pdf
This tip sheet offers instructions and templates for understanding data ecosystems in a humanitarian response.
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #7: RESPONSIBLE DATA SHARING WITH DONORS
This paper assesses the technical feasibility of conflict prediction for anticipatory action in the humanitarian sector.
This report summarizes the documentation and findings of the peer review of the INFORM Risk Index.
SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #1: CONTRÔLE DE LA DIVULGATION DE DONNÉES STATISTIQUES
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 HDX (last updated April 2025).
Guidance Note on Responsible Approaches to Data Sharing in Arabic
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #1: STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL
SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #3: LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS LES PARTENARIATS PUBLIC-PRIVÉ
Complex Systems Modeling for Humanitarian Action - Methods and Opportunities (Nov 2021)
Complex Systems Modeling for Humanitarian Action - Methods and Opportunities (Nov 2021).pdf
Guidance Note on the Implications of Cyber Threats for Humanitarians in Arabic
WORKING DRAFT - Data Responsibility in Rapid Scale Down or Closure of Operations
[WORKING DRAFT] Data Responsibility in Rapid Scale Down or Closure of Operations.pdf
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).
INFORM Report 2023: Sharing Evidence for Managing Crises and Disasters
IASC Operational Guidance 2024 Arabic.pdf
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.
Peer Review Framework for Predictive Analytics in Humanitarian Response (rev. 2)
Guidance Note on Cash and Voucher Assistance, Arabic Translation
Guidance Note on Cash and Voucher Assistance, Arabic Translation.pdf
Guidance Note on Data Sharing with Donors, Arabic Translation
Guidance Note on Data Sharing with Donors, Arabic Translation.pdf
OCHA Data Responsibility Guidelines 2019
One-page handout on the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data (last updated January 2024).
Centre for Humanitarian Data One-Pager.pdf
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.
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024.pdf
SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #8: APPROCHES RESPONSABLES EN MATIÈRE DE PARTAGE DES DONNÉES
Resources for Developers cookbook for HDX CKAN API
This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Drought in Chad.
Model Report - Chad Drought Anticipatory Action trigger.pdf
The Centre conducted an independent review of Cooper/Smith’s mobility model for Malawi, according to our Peer Review Framework.
Final report - Cooper_Smith - DIAL Peer review.pdf
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2025 contains details on the data available for each location, category and sub-category covered in the HDX Data Grids. It includes sections on the risk to data in 2025, the rise of APIs in the humanitarian sector and the work of WorldPop. It also looks at climate data for anticipatory action.
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2025.pdf
Les Consignes d’OCHA sur la Responsabilité des données
Data Responsibility Guidelines 2021 French.pdf
This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Flooding in Bangladesh.
Asesoramiento en el diseño de asociaciones responsables entre organizaciones humanitarias y el sector privado en iniciativas relacionadas con datos y tecnología.
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #5: DATA IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
This is a repository for PDF files that are linked on the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data's website, https://centre.humdata.org. Please note that if you wish to access these files, we recommend you use the Resources section of the Centre's website rather than downloading from HDX.
Update for 2025: 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 OCHA’s data management.
Tip Sheet on Data Security in OCHA Data Management.pdf
Image used for World Bank Stats for the 2021 Year-in-review
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #4: HUMANITARIAN DATA ETHICS
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #6: DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN CASH AND VOUCHER ASSISTANCE
This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Drought in Niger.
Niger AA Trigger for Drought - Model Report.pdf
Two-page handout on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action.
Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action.pdf
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.
State of Open Humanitarian Data 2021.pdf
Guidance Note on Humanitarian Data Ethics, Arabic Translation
Guidance Note on Humanitarian Data Ethics, Arabic Translation.pdf
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.
State of Open Humanitarian Data 2023.pdf
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 tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations, translated into Arabic.
Tip Sheet on Data Security in Operational Data Management Arabic.pdf
Guidance Note on Data Responsibility and Accountability to Affected People in Humanitarian Action in Arabic
This document summarizes the documentation and findings developed in the peer review of the Anticipatory Action Trigger for Flooding in Nepal.
This report is on lessons learned from anticipatory action ahead of flooding in South Sudan in 2022.
Innovating Anticipatory Action -- Lessons from the 2022 South Sudan Floods.pdf
This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations, translated into French.
Tip Sheet on Data Security in Operational Data Management French.pdf
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 note describes the technical aspects of the trigger mechanism for Anticipatory Action in the Central American Dry Corridor (CADC).
Tip Sheet on Data Security in Operational Data Management in Spanish
Tip Sheet on Data Security in Operational Data Management Spanish.pdf
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.
An introduction to vegetation indices data that describes how to access, analyse and interpret this data in the context of a humanitarian response.
Climate Guidance on Vegetation Indices.pdf
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.
State of Open Humanitarian Data 2022.pdf
GUIDANCE NOTE SERIES DATA RESPONSIBILITY IN HUMANITARIAN ACTION NOTE #8: RESPONSIBLE APPROACHES TO DATA SHARING
Resources for Developers reference for Solr search queries
Guidance Note on Data Incident Management in Arabic
Note d'orientation: La responsabilité des données et la redevabilité aux personnes affectées
This tip sheet offers a set of recommended actions for data security in humanitarian operations, translated into Ukrainian.
Tip Sheet on Data Security in Operational Data Management Ukrainian.pdf
SÉRIE DE NOTES D’ORIENTATION LA RESPONSABILITÉ DES DONNÉES DANS L’ACTION HUMANITAIRE NOTE #2: LA GESTION DES INCIDENTS LIÉS AUX DONNÉES
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.
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
Guidance Note on Data Impact Assessment, Arabic Translation
Guidance Note on Data Impact Assessment, Arabic Translation.pdf
The Centre conducted an independent review of 510 's typhoon impact model for the Philippines, according to our Peer Review Framework.
510 Philippines Typhoon Model Report.pdf
An introduction to observational rainfall data that describes how to access, analyse and interpret this data in the context of a humanitarian response.
Climate Guidance Series: Observational Rainfall Data