ICTS in Humanitarian Response: A learning Review of a Three-Year, Five-Country Programme

Author(s)
O'Donnell, A.
Publication language
English
Pages
28pp
Date published
13 Apr 2017
Type
Programme/project reviews
Keywords
Comms, media & information, Development & humanitarian aid
Countries
Ethiopia, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Iraq
Organisations
Oxfam

The Scaling Humanitarian ICTs Network (SHINE) funded by Sida, set out with the theory of change that the quality and efficiency of humanitarian aid can be improved in a variety of contexts through the adoption of Information Communications Technologies (ICTs). With applications in Ethiopia, DRC, Mali, Indonesia and Iraq, ICTs were introduced to enable digital registrations, mobile data collection, cash/voucher programming and systems for accountability. While ICTs hold promise for saving time, money and improving accuracy, this learning report sets out to unpack these benefits and identify the conditions that need to be in place in order for ICTs to significantly add value to humanitarian response.