H2H Network package of humanitarian support services: Conflict in Sudan

Objective

Bridging the information and analysis gap by providing real-time, localized, and verifiable data through the GANNET-powered media monitoring dashboard, to enhance decision-making and the effectiveness of the humanitarian responses. GANNET is a tool that leverages Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI to offer comprehensive media monitoring, analytics, and visualization.

Services

- Real-time, verifiable information from various media sources, aiding quick decision-making and situational awareness.

- Detailed, relevant information, including summaries, updates, trends, and risk indicators to support local responders.

- Tailored analysis support, including data triangulation, secondary data review, mentoring and analysis of the humanitarian data landscape.

- Customized training on data collection, collation, and analysis processes including the effective use of the GANNET dashboard and tools.

- Automated data processing delivers instant updates, enabling continuous monitoring and quick response to emerging issues.

Contact

James Sparkes, Senior Analyst james@datafriendlyspace.org

Objective

Enhancing participation and improving information flow between local and diaspora groups, and the humanitarian coordination structures.

Services

- Stakeholder consultations, based on the existing mapping of local and diaspora groups, to enable targeted identification of critical networks, key actors and gaps within the information ecosystem

- Development of a network of individuals within local and diaspora groups who can serve as information liaisons with international response coordination structures. Mentoring of these individuals to enhance their capacity to collect, collate and analyze situational information, combined with support and advice to coordination fora leads on how to lower the barriers for engagement of local actors.

- Recommendations for approaches to regularly transmit collated data and key messages into international coordination structures; and to analyze and transmit relevant information back.

Contact

Liz Hendry, Programme Lead, liz.hendry@cdacnetwork.org

Objective

Informing and improving the humanitarian emergency response by ensuring that humanitarian actors understand people’s perceptions and needs. Will provide data about communities’ perception available to humanitarian actors, to enable them to advocate for greater support and demonstrate the reach of their work.

Services

- Consultations with responders and local actors in Sudan to identify the information gaps, study sample and methodology.

- Collection and analysis of perception data from communities in affected areas through quantitative surveys and discussions across different community groups to capture their priorities and concerns.

- Presentation of the data with humanitarian actors, local civil society, and affected communities to produce actionable recommendations.

- Dissemination of bulletin reports on community perceptions, making them available in both English and Arabic.

Contact

Anja Piskur, Project Lead, anja@groundtruthsolutions.org

Objective

Fostering an evidence-based response tailored to the needs of affected populations in Sudan through real-time updates on areas of concern, and rapid needs assessments.

Services

- A pilot of an integrated needs monitoring system identifying and providing regular updates to humanitarians on areas of concern where the risk of preventable loss of lives appears to be the highest. This will be in coordination with the Assessment and Analysis Working Group.

- Rapid needs assessments, providing an in-depth understanding of needs in hotspot locations identified through the monitoring system.

- Dissemination of the rapid needs assessments’ findings to key decision makers.

Contact

Jack Berger, Sudan Country Representative, jack.berger@impact-initiatives.org

Objective

Addressing comprehensive capacity development needs – institutional and individual – of local actors in Sudan's crisis response.

Services

- Learning Needs Assessment report, outlining key capacity gaps and learning needs in the crisis response.

- Institutional Capacity Strengthening to local aid organizations (e.g. NNGOs/CSOs) through face-to-face trainings and coaching/mentoring.

- Individual Capacity Building of individual humanitarian responders (e.g., ERR volunteers, NNGO staff), through delivering online trainings and Training of Trainers (ToT) sessions.

Contacts

- Mohammed Bashein, RedRUK Programmes Coordinator, mohammed.bashein@redr.org.uk

- Alexander Simpson, HAD Programmes Coordinator, alexander.simpson@had-int.org

Objective

Provide humanitarian stakeholders with data-driven, real-time community feedback and improve the sustainability of Accountability to Affected Population (AAP)

Services

- Social media listening as well as in person social listening to collect community feedback.

- Analysis of community feedback, and dissemination of findings to humanitarian stakeholders through flash reports, presentations, and one-on-one data provision upon request.

- Roundtables with local media and humanitarian actors to build relationships that will support stronger AAP efforts in the response.

Contacts

Emily Cowlrick, Consultant Manager,

ecowlrick@Iinternews.org

Objective

Improving spatial data on neighborhood boundaries and roads in Khartoum and other conflict-impacted areas by establishing a responsible process to work with local communities, within the diaspora and in Sudan.

Services

- Production of complete open spatial dataset for roads, populated locations, and local area boundaries datasets.

- Participatory mapping involving individuals who can input local knowledge of Sudanese geography.

Contacts

Jessie Pechmann, Global GIS Manager, jessie.pechmann@hotosm.org