Activations

Building NGO capacity to mitigate challenges in food delivery. The project develops an understanding of how conflict dynamics put aid delivery and staff at risk and how prediction and mitigation strategies can strengthen the acceptance of aid interventions.

Improving the accessibility and quality of information on the drought’s impact on the Kenyan population while providing remote sensing and regional analysis across the drought-affected areas in the Horn of Africa. This will support informed evidence-based decision-making for humanitarian stakeholders.

Setting up a pilot groundwater monitoring programme at critical water sources across the Horn of Africa. The project aims to support drought alert systems which is key to understanding what resources are available and how they are being impacted by abstraction and climate.

Supporting effective, local drought response and resilience of affected populations through a capacity strengthening programme in Kenya and Somalia, together with the local partner Somali Lifeline Organization. Over 130 stakeholders will be supported in areas such as drought management and resilience planning, gender-sensitive responses, and community engagement.

Working with REACH to make language and communication data available for targeted humanitarian assistance and engagement of marginalized language communities in Somalia. Guidance on communicating across dialects of Somali, based on consultation with experts on the Somali languages and society in collaboration with Minority Rights Group International will also be developed.

Providing technical support to strengthen collective solutions to challenges in communication, community engagement, and accountability (CCEA) in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. The capacity of CDAC will be formally seconded to the regional Accountability to Affected People (AAP) working group while supporting the protection working group to catalyze change in the response.

Providing analysis of the current situation of the drought in the Horn of Africa and providing anticipatory analysis of the likely future impacts of the drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Providing operational agencies working in response to the recent earthquake with actionable recommendations based on feedback from the affected population. Focusing on the most hit areas of Nippes, Sud, and Grand Anse, GTS will seek both quantitative and qualitative feedback from affected people in the region to enable responders to be accountable to the communities they seek to serve.

Embedding the Haiti earthquake emergency response into existing systems for community dialogue and communication to enhance accountability.

Independent reporting that informs response measures to the recent earthquake and overlapping crises in Haiti and represents diverse local voices in assessing need and response, communicating on-the-ground initiatives and needs to Haitian and international audiences.

Strengthening local response capacity in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, RedR UK will provide training to improve the effectiveness of the response, ensuring the most vulnerable can access life-saving assistance, as well as increasing resilience.

Providing aid-sector tailored predictive situation analysis to support aid agencies’ strategic security decision-making on operations in Haiti and enable better access to beneficiaries. The information will be publicly available on various platforms such as Reliefweb, the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) website and the Insecurity Insight and H2H Network websites.

HOT will crowdsource strategic open data sets to improve Haitian’s ability to respond to the 7.2 Earthquake there by increasing their community resilience and wellbeing. Supported by HOT’s activities, the local operational partner, COSMHANNE will leverage its volunteer capacity to collect data, map affected areas, and enhance remote mapping by incorporating local knowledge.

Responding to the urgent need of service providers and working groups requiring support for better community engagement and accountability (CEA) coordination in Sudan’s Tigray refugee response. Enhancing coordination efforts in CEA and providing community engagement training with a common set of tools for all refugee response actors.

Working with the Nutrition Information Working Group (NIWG) to produce high quality nutrition data and build the capacity of partners to assess the nutrition situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Supporting data sharing and analysis of security incidents from partner agencies active in Ethiopia. Making insights available for the whole aid sector in the form of situation analysis and direct access to data.

Design and develop a ready-to-roll-out learning path “MEAL CHS - Quality and Accountability in practice” to be delivered online to field-based staff to help them implement Quality and Accountability commitments in crisis response.

‘Humanitarian Making’ for Everyone – a Mobile App. The humanitarian system’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has seen many aid agencies – international and local – start to make their own aid supplies such as PPE, or find new ways to support local stakeholders to produce these supplies. Field Ready will develop and publish its procedures and tools for the local production of appropriate quality aid supplies, based on its years of innovation and learning in this emerging space. The app will help everyone, anywhere to get ready for the next humanitarian emergency by helping them to make aid supplies – and to do it well.

Building bridges in surge capacity for Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) by developing SOPs and tools for humanitarian responders, locally based individuals and companies experienced in CEA to act as centres of community engagement excellence and coordination.

Rapid Onset Localization Team (ROLT): a team of experienced regional experts and trainers fully trained, able to engage in their region on short notice, with access to a knowledge base and equipped with a series of short training modules aimed at incorporating local actors into humanitarian response.

Provide global and context specific analysis to guide the scale-up and reorientation of humanitarian action in response to the pandemic

Improve the impact and quality of the Covid-19 response by answering humanitarian agencies’ needs in terms of adapting their IM and M and E activities

Library of collated, summarized and up-to-date research on the effectiveness of interventions to treat, manage and mitigate the impact of the pandemic.

Match unmet data needs from government and NGOs with local experts and supporting the design and execution of targeted data collection efforts.

Provide geospatial, data and IM support to those agencies who are key to effective Covid-19 response among the world's most vulnerable communities.

Keeping ahead of the Covid-19 impact curve in ongoing and emerging disasters using adaptive communication and community engagement approaches.

Access to vital information about the pandemic.

Perceptions of a pandemic: Strengthening the quality and relevance of the Covid-19 global response through community input.

Media coverage of the impact of and response to the Covid-19 pandemic in crisis zones.

Mentor and coach local NGOs: Capacity building for organizational  adjustment and Covid-19 response.

Remote online facilitated training.

Build the capacity of humanitarian actors on relevant humanitarian standards for the Covid-19 response.

Monitor Covid-19 related aid security events to help aid agencies adjust their security risk strategies and to highlight the specific risks faced by mainly local health workers.

Optimize the efficiency of the humanitarian supply chain.

Increase access to improved WASH facilities and information on safe WASH practices, including Covid-19 prevention.

Provision of life-saving information ranging from shelter, food and water and protection issues around Covid-19.

Data collection, base map data, daily updates (supporting all IM officers and OCHA IM team).

Independent and daily situation analysis for entire response, daily briefing notes on needs.

Coordination across response (in cooperation with OCHA), CE assessment, language support (focus on local languages).

Detailed analysis of logistics vulnerabilities; access opening in Beira; rubble management (in cooperation with logistics cluster and World Food Programme).