Overview
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What is the Humanitarian Profile-COD?
The Humanitarian Profile Common Operational Dataset (COD-HP) is a dataset that seeks to account for, on an ongoing basis, the number of people having humanitarian needs arising from a given emergency. In other words, it is the “caseload figures”, or a count of the number of affected people in an emergency.
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Why is it important?
- It provides information that facilitates humanitarian planning and needs assessment
- It forms the basis and reference point of any relief operation aiming to deliver aid according to the population’s needs
- It includes and enables the classification of affected persons and victims into many categories, thus facilitating targeted responses
- It can help humanitarian actors, local and national authorities have the same view of the people affected in a crisis
- It is required throughout the HPC and is used in many OCHA products
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The Humanitarian Profile COD plays a crucial role into the development of products like the Humanitarian Snapshot, the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), Humanitarian Bulletin, and much more.
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HPC Tools
Who is involved in the development of the COD-HP?
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- IASC Guidelines on the Humanitarian Profile Common Operational Dataset (2011) English | français (Main guidance document)
- Humanitarian Profile Support Guidance (May 2016) (English) (Main guidance document)
- Humanitarian Profile Visuals (2014) English | français (This guidance is intended for colleagues who are tasked with estimating humanitarian population figures and are facilitating, or participating, in joint analysis, planning and response monitoring)
- Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Person (2008)
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Material from the development of the Support Guidance (Meeting Outputs from work in 2014)
- Summary humanitarian profile support package consultations
- Humanitarian Caseloads Definitions Standards
- Humanitarian Caseload Problem Statement
- Humanitarian Figures Survey Report
- Terms of Reference for 2015 (with milestones)
Reference Material
- Desk Review Rapid Estimation of Affected Population Figures
- Link to the population estimation background materials (on JIPS website, the material was used in a desk review. The documents indicated with ’Population estimations 1’ have been included in the 2012 desk review, the ones with ’Population estimations 2’ are the newer ones and have not been included).
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