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OCHA Knowledge Base
Platforms
Overview
OCHA has many web platforms (probably too many!) Below is a simple guide highlighting the PRIMARY audience and PRIMARY purpose of the sites managed by OCHA on behalf of the humanitarian community and a few that are specifically for OCHA staff.
Links are to external sites however several have more detailed pages in this toolbox. (RW Response, HID, HDX)
MS word document with all sites, March 2018 (if you update this please share!)
ReliefWeb Response (RW Response)
Audience: Field level
Purpose: operational level document and information sharing, includes documents, contact lists, meeting schedules, maps and infographics, data, assessment registry, clusters specific pages
UNOCHA
Audience: Headquarters level
Purpose: High-level overview of field operations with links to latest products, maps, and infographics, key figures, funding status.
HDX - humanitarian data exchange
Audience: field and technical headquarters
Purpose: an open platform for sharing data related to a humanitarian response
HID - Humanitarian ID
Humanitarian ID platform and its contacts management features is decommissioned on 1 Jan 2021. Note that this will not affect the HID Authentication service, your HID account will remain active to access integrated platforms.
KoBo Toolbox
Audience: field / operations level
Purpose: a free open-source tool for mobile data collection, available to all.
DSR - Digital Situation Reports
Audience: Field and HQ level
Purpose: The Digital Situation Report aims to simplify OCHA's current portfolio of field reporting products (Flash Update, Situation Report and Humanitarian Bulletin) by moving out of static PDFs and consolidating into a single online format.
RedHum - Red de informacion humantaria
Audience: Field level
Purpose: ofrece información actualizada diariamente, de fuentes oficiales, promoviendo el intercambio de información con actores del mismo sector de trabajo contribuyendo a la toma de decisiones en la gestión de desastres
Virtual OSOCC - on-site operations coordination centre
Audience: UNDAC and first responders
Purpose: Information exchange and coordination of bilateral assistance in the early phase after major disasters.
Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools
RPM - Response planning and monitoring
Audience: field level response organizations
Purpose: a module of the HPC tools that facilitates the HPC planning process by collecting periodic monitoring information.
Humanitarian InSight
Audience: field and HQ
Purpose: HPC tool that provides global overview to the humanitarian needs, requirements and interagency response plans.
FTS - Financial tracking service
Audience: field and HQ
Purpose: a centralized source of curated, continuously updated, fully downloadable data and information on humanitarian funding flow.
OPS - on-line planning/project system
Audience: field level responders
Purpose: For organizations in a humanitarian crisis to coordinate their implementation responsibilities and peer-review their funding requests
Secondary Data Analysis Platform
DEEP - Data exploration and extraction platform
Audience: field level and technical HQ
Purpose: a tool to collect and analyze secondary data from various publications such as websites and PDF reports.
Assessment Registry (Survey of Surveys)
Audience: field level response organizations
Purpose: a tool to to share existing assessments and plans for future assessments
Funding
CERF - Central emergency response fund
Audience: field and HQ
Purpose: is a humanitarian fund to promote early action and response to reduce the loss of life, enhance response to time-critical requirements, and strengthen core elements of humanitarian response in underfunded crises
Country-based Pooled Funds (CBPF)
Audience: stakeholders and HQ
Purpose: to share information on Country-based Pooled Funds.
GMS - Grant Management System
Audience: field and HQ
Purpose: tool to management Country-based Pooled Funds.
Internal to OCHA Staff (un.org email address with login credentials)
OCHA Hub
Audience: OCHA staff
Purpose: Site for all internal OCHA documents and staff sites (UMOJA, Inspira, LMS)
Inspira
Audience: OCHA staff
Purpose: E-performance, work plan, mid-year and end of year reviews
INFORM
Audience: Field and Headquarters
Purpose: a global, objective and transparent tool for understanding the risk of humanitarian crises. A collaboration of the IASC Task Team for Preparedness and Resilience and the European Commission.
OCT - contributions tracking systems
Audience: OCHA staff
Purpose: OCT tracks all contributions received from donors to OCHA's annual extra-budget as well as all contributions to 'Specially Designated Contributions'