| Crisis context/scope of work | Accountability for crisis affected population |
| Geographical scope | Global |
| Project period | May – June 2021 |
| Donors/partners | International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) |
| Budget | USD 18,000 |
| Problem | DFS’ solution |
| The International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network with over 160,000 branches and millions of volunteers. To highlight stories from national communities, IFRC initiated the Local Data Stories Project in 2019, allowing local communities to inform programming. The project extracts information from social media, local news articles, and strategic documents from a Federation-wide database. After prototyping the project in selected countries, IFRC needed a technical partner to conduct a technical review of existing functions and systems before the global rollout. | DFS evaluated the potential of expanding the Local Data Stories Project to include all 192 National Societies by conducting a desktop review with members, evaluating the site’s code/algorithm settings, and ensuring stakeholder feedback reviews from all relevant parties. DFS provided IFRC with strategic advice to support the next stage of its beta project including recommendation on how open source code could be integrated with other internal and external tools for IFRC. DFS suggested a series of higher-level organizational recommendations on how to best integrate and use data across IFRC while helping to facilitate the global roll-out of the project. |