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Data Entry and Exploration Platform (DEEP)

Data Entry and Exploration Platform (DEEP)

Over the past 20 years, more than 7,300 natural disasters were recorded worldwide, affecting more than 4 billion people across the globe and generating $2.97 trillion in economic losses (UNDRR).

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Data Entry and Exploration Platform (DEEP)

How AI is Bettering Response To Internal Displacement

How AI is Bettering Response To Internal Displacement

More than 50 million people around the world are internally displaced. Forced by natural disasters and violence to flee their homes and often living in refugee-like conditions within their own country’s borders, the UNHCR has called internally displaced people “among the most vulnerable in the world.”

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How AI is Bettering Response To Internal Displacement

COVID-19 Situation Analysis

COVID-19 Situation Analysis

In 2020, DFS partnered with iMMAP to assist country-level aid responders to scale up humanitarian responses to COVID-19 through secondary data review and analysis.

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COVID-19 Situation Analysis

Secondary Data Review – GIMAC

Secondary Data Review – GIMAC

In partnership with the GIMAC consortium, DFS provided 14 countries with Secondary Data Review and Analysis (SDRA) to improve the transparency and accountability of collective evidence and support joint situational analysis in COVID-19 affected humanitarian contexts.

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Secondary Data Review – GIMAC

2020 Humanitarian Needs Overview

2020 Humanitarian Needs Overview

In partnership with the Danish Refugee Council, DFS implemented a secondary data review in DEEP to support joint situation analyses in COVID-19-affected humanitarian contexts (South Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan), informing the Humanitarian Needs Overview.

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2020 Humanitarian Needs Overview

Humanitarian Response in Urban Contexts – GRC

Humanitarian Response in Urban Contexts – GRC

DFS partnered with the German Red Cross (GRC) in 2021 to track humanitarian assistance in urban contexts using the DEEP platform.

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Humanitarian Response in Urban Contexts – GRC

Equipping IFRC to Respond to the DRC Ebola Outbreak

Equipping IFRC to Respond to the DRC Ebola Outbreak

DFS helped IFRC assess its operational appropriateness and efficiency in response to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak and scale its response.

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Equipping IFRC to Respond to the DRC Ebola Outbreak

Cash Assistance for Refugees – IFRC

Cash Assistance for Refugees – IFRC

DFS has been supporting IFRC’s work with Refugees in Turkey to provide emergency cash assistance to refugees living in Turkey.

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Cash Assistance for Refugees – IFRC

Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis – UNHCR

Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis – UNHCR

UNHCR partnered with DFS to strengthen assessment capacities and strategies in the Venezuelan refugee and migrant crisis through secondary data review and analysis.

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Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis – UNHCR

Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments – IFRC

Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments – IFRC

Since 2019, DFS has developed and implemented community-based disaster preparedness programmes with IFRC, providing secondary data analysis for the Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (EVCA).

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Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments – IFRC

Training and Secondary Data Analysis Capacity Building – IFRC

Training and Secondary Data Analysis Capacity Building – IFRC

DFS designed and led an extensive training for IFRC colleagues focused on secondary data review and analysis in IFRC’s various humanitarian responses.

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Training and Secondary Data Analysis Capacity Building – IFRC

Media Monitoring Through IOM’s Missing Migrant Project

Media Monitoring Through IOM’s Missing Migrant Project

DFS supported the IOM in 2021 to help develop an efficient and agile media monitoring solution to strengthen the reporting of migrant deaths and disappearances — IOM’s Missing Migrant Project (MMP).

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Media Monitoring Through IOM’s Missing Migrant Project

GO Platform and COVID-19 Dashboards – IFRC

GO Platform and COVID-19 Dashboards – IFRC

DFS has a multi-year partnership with IFRC to optimize its information management processes through the GO Platform, including the addition of functionalities required by the challenge of COVID-19.

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GO Platform and COVID-19 Dashboards – IFRC

Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+) – UNEP

Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+) – UNEP

DFS supports the integration of more sustainable environmental practices in humanitarian aid with UNEP through the Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+) web application.

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Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT+) – UNEP

Media Monitoring Platform – IDMC

Media Monitoring Platform – IDMC

DFS worked with IDMC to develop a tool to monitor news reports on global internal displacement including mapping and dashboard development.

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Media Monitoring Platform – IDMC

Tracking Gender-Based Violence – UNFPA

Tracking Gender-Based Violence – UNFPA

DFS supports UNFPA as developer of its Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility website.

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Tracking Gender-Based Violence – UNFPA

Women’s Participation Project (WPP) Website – IOM

Women’s Participation Project (WPP) Website – IOM

DFS partnered with IOM to launch a new Women’s Participation Project (WWP) website providing Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) professionals access to shared lessons and collaborations.

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Women’s Participation Project (WPP) Website – IOM

Information Management System – Transparency International

Information Management System – Transparency International

DFS created a secure information management and CRM system for Transparency International to support their work against global corruption.

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Information Management System – Transparency International

Tracking Internally Displaced Persons Using AI – IDMC

Tracking Internally Displaced Persons Using AI – IDMC

IDMC contracted DFS to develop and maintain its global monitoring platform managing data on internally displaced persons.

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Tracking Internally Displaced Persons Using AI – IDMC

Data Visualization System – DIFD Nepal

Data Visualization System – DIFD Nepal

DFID Nepal partnered with DFS to develop a Data Visualization System (DVS) to display project and finance data to support programme management.

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Data Visualization System – DIFD Nepal

Recovery Reporting after Earthquake in Nepal – CRS

Recovery Reporting after Earthquake in Nepal – CRS

DFS developed a Nepal-led Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform (HRRP) for CRS to generate reports on earthquake-affected recovery relief.

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Recovery Reporting after Earthquake in Nepal – CRS

Open Government Web Application – Congo Research Group (GEC) / NYU

Open Government Web Application – Congo Research Group (GEC) / NYU

The Talatala platform promotes government accountability in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in partnership with the Congo Research Group (GEC).

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Open Government Web Application – Congo Research Group (GEC) / NYU

Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD) – IDMC

Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD) – IDMC

DFS developed the Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD), for IDMC to allow policymakers and researchers to track internal displacement.

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Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD) – IDMC

Informing Humanitarian Decisions through DEEP

Informing Humanitarian Decisions through DEEP

Through partnering with the Danish Refugee Council, DFS carried out large-scale awareness-raising and capacity-building exercises to enable DEEP to support the global humanitarian community better.

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Informing Humanitarian Decisions through DEEP

Emergency Response Questionnaire Builder – IFRC

Emergency Response Questionnaire Builder – IFRC

IFRC needed an online platform for assessment coordinators and analysts to improve field survey creation through an automated questionnaire builder.

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Emergency Response Questionnaire Builder – IFRC

Improving Emergency Needs Assessments – UNHCR

Improving Emergency Needs Assessments – UNHCR

DFS tailored features in DEEP to support UNHCR’s secondary data analysis and emergency needs assessment processes.

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Improving Emergency Needs Assessments – UNHCR

Hosting and Maintenance of theDEEP.io

Hosting and Maintenance of theDEEP.io

As technical lead, DFS continuously manages development and maintenance of DEEP for the humanitarian community.

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Hosting and Maintenance of theDEEP.io

DEEP Feature Development – OHCHR

DEEP Feature Development – OHCHR

A custom DEEP feature for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) Emergency Response Teams helps analyze human rights data more effectively.

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DEEP Feature Development – OHCHR

Local Data Stories Project – IFRC

Local Data Stories Project – IFRC

IFRC’s Local Data Stories Project needed technical support to create a strategic roadmap to enable its global roll out.

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Local Data Stories Project – IFRC