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Essential Reading for OCHA IMOs
Familiarity with these five pieces of guidance will provide an IMO with a solid foundation of the role of information management in an OCHA office and how IM fits within the larger humanitarian context. Collectively, these documents outline a list of IM responsibilities that individual IMOs and IM teams are responsible for in every OCHA office.
- Policy Instruction: The Roles and Responsibilities of Country Offices (2010) - If you only read one, read this one! Although this policy instruction needs to be updated it provides a genuinely useful framework of an OCHA office's five operational priorities (situational awareness, a common approach, a common strategy, monitoring, lessons learned) and the role of IM. It also includes office size and structure, cost-plans, supervision and internal reporting.
- IASC: Operational Guidance on Responsibilities of Clusters/Sectors Leads & OCHA in Information Management (2008) - Perhaps the most important IM-focused guidance document, describing the relationship between OCHA and the clusters, as well as many of the individual tasks IMOs are responsible for.
- IASC: Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) (2015) - Basic framework for county-level preparedness.
- IASC: Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) reference module (2014) - Describes how agencies work together to provide humanitarian relief.
- IASC: Common Operational Datasets (COD) (2016-Draft) - Describes the most important baseline datasets with special emphasis on administrative boundaries and baseline population statistics.
Can you answer these questions? If not, read the documents
What are the 5 operational priorities of an OCHA country office?
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Who is responsible for establishing Information Management Network at the country level?
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OCHA IMO in the country (IASC Operational Guidance on Responsibilities of Cluster/Sector Leads and OCHA in Information Management, 2008) |
List the two IM minimum preparedness actions.
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Familiarise humanitarian partners with the IASC operational guidance on emergency Information Management Develop common data preparedness sets (CODs) |
List the two "essential enablers" in the humanitarian programme cycle.
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Coordination and Information Management. (HPC) |
What is the definition of a COD?
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Common Operational Datasets (CODs) are authoritative reference datasets needed to support operations and decision-making for all actors in a humanitarian response. |
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