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3W

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.

Administrative level


Administrative unit


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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

See Common Operational Datasets (CODs)

COD-CS

See Country-Specific COD

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

'See Core Common Operational Datatsets: Administrative Boundary (COD-AB), Population Statistics (COD-PS), and Humanitarian Profile (COD-HP)

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Emergency Response Preparedness

To enhance emergency preparedness within the multilateral humanitarian system, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) has developed the Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) approach, which was adopted for field testing in August 2015. The approach is based on a review of relief operations over the past decade and enables the humanitarian community to proactively prepare for crises requiring a coordinated international response.


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FIS

OCHA Field Information Services


email ocha-fis-data@un.org

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Humanitarian.id


HumanitarianRespose.info


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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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KOBO


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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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