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Who does What Where When' maps or tables. These depend heavily on CODs. 3W information and examples

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Administrative boundary

A geographic polygon or polygons representing the perimeter of one administrative unit.  

Administrative hierarchy

A set of recognized and hierarchical levels of administrative authority and geographic partition of a country or territory.  Increasing administrative level numbers represent lower (geographically smaller and administratively subservient) units, with administrative level 0 representing the entire country, administrative level 1 representing the next lower level, and so on.

  • EXAMPLE:  Afghanistan is divided into provinces, which are in turn divided into districts.  Thus Afghanistan's administrative level 0 is the country (Afghanistan), administrative level 1 is the provinces, and administrative level 2 is the districts.

In some countries an administrative level may consist of more than one type of administrative unit.

  • EXAMPLE:  The United States of America's administrative level 1 consists of States, the District of Colombia, and further remote units.
  • EXAMPLE:  Canada's administrative level 1 consists of provinces and territories.

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Candidate COD

Candidate COD: COD with improved quality and standardization. ('created in  the Process' phase in COD Cycle). Rationale for terms: common terminology in country/region, describe the state of the COD (phase in cycle), used in tagging on HDX. See COD Cycle.

COD

See Common Operational DatasetS (CODs)

COD-AB

An administrative Boundary COD is a spatial dataset that identifies the various administrative level boundaries, names and unique codes (P-codes) in a country. It is a core COD, and provides a spatial/visual way to view and analyse data as well as a common way of referring to places allowing datasets to be aggregated and analysed more easily. See Common Operational Datasets (CODs).

COD-PS

Population Statistics COD is a tabular baseline demographic dataset that s (ideally) disaggregated by age and sex and presented at various levels of administrative levels in a country (includes P-codes). It is a core COD that is used to identify initial affected numbers and understand the pre-emergency situation. See: See Common Operational Datasets (CODs).

COD-CS

See Country-Specific COD

COD-HP

Humanitarian Profile COD that provides the number of people affected, including when relevant: displaced, missing, injured, dead, as well as people in need.  It is a Core COD that is only available post crisis. It is used to make programmatic decisions. See the

COD Cycle

Effective COD development is composed of six COD cycle functions:  1) plan, 2) collect, 3) process, 4) endorse, 5) communicate and 6) maintain.  See Common Operational Dataset cycle.

Common Operational Dataset (COD)

Authoritative reference datasets needed to support operations and decision-making for all actors in a humanitarian response. They provide essential baseline data and data standards that allow humanitarian actors to collaborate, coordinate and exchange information. CODs provide the basis for a common operational picture and a shared situational awareness. .

Core Common Operatioanal Datasets

Core CODs are required in all countries with ongoing humanitarian operations or in which emergency response preparedness (ERP) activities are underway. They provide a critical data standard and support initial analysis in the first 48 hours of a new emergency of impact, scope and scale and thus inform decisions on any subsequent response. There are three Core themes: Administrative Boundaries, Population Statistics, and Humanitarian Profile.  See Core Common Operational Datatsets: Administrative Boundary (COD-AB), Population Statistics (COD-PS), and Humanitarian Profile (COD-HP).

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Endorsed CODCOD which has been accepted as the reference dataset to be used by the IM network in country.  See Common Operational Dataset cycle.
ERPEmergency Response Preparedness. To improve the humanitarian system's readiness to respond to breaking crises, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) developed the Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) approach.  The aim is to increase the speed and volume of life-saving assistance delivered in the first four to six weeks of an emergency. For more information see: The ERP approach

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Field Information Service is a section of OCHA based in geneva that supports information management, products and services to OCHA country and regional offices.

email ocha-fis-data@un.org

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ITOS

The Carl Vinson Institute of Government's Office of Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) is a leader in GIS innovation and is part of the University of Georgia.  ITOS provides three services for Common Operational Datasets:  

  1. Vetting and correction of database, attributes, and spatial properties
  2. Configuration and standardization
  3. Preparation and publishing of live services

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Live service

Map and feature services of administrative boundary and populated places Common Operational Datasets (COD-ABs and COD-PP).

See How to consume COD live services.

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