Online project services (OPS)
The Online Project Planning System (OPS) is a web application that allows UN agencies and NGOs participating in inter-agency planning processes (Strategic Response Plans or Emergency Action Plans) to directly upload their projects and funding requests for consideration during the planning phase, and update them during the course of the year. The system has been designed to facilitate information sharing and the review process for humanitarian actors. OPS is the central repository for response plan and action plan projects. It is managed by the Program Support Branch (PSB) in OCHA Geneva and it is linked to the Financial Tracking Service (FTS), a website that publishes funding requests and statuses of projects in inter-agency plans.
Who can access OPS?
UN agencies and NGOs that would like to submit projects to a response plan or update them during the year can access the application with an OPS-OCHA single sign-on account. However, before uploading projects, organizations who not familiar with the strategic planning process should be in contact with the OCHA field office or with the cluster coordinators at the field level. To access OPS go to: http://ops.unocha.org/
What can you do in OPS?
- Organizations can upload projects and update them anytime during the year (depending on the approval status of the project).
- All users may view each other’s projects, but may only edit their own organization’s projects.
- Cluster Coordinators can review projects for their cluster and approve projects for the response plan by
clicking on the approval button. - View/print summary and detailed PDF lists of projects by cluster, organization, location, priority, or gender
marker. - View/print PDF and Word versions of full project sheets (single, selected group of projects, or all projects).
- View/print in excel format all information (in data fields) related to the projects.
- View/print in excel format the detailed geographical locations to facilitate analysis of who is doing what
where