The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2021: Assessing Data Availability Across Humanitarian Crises

Author(s)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Publication language
English
Pages
pp25
Date published
11 Feb 2021
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Assessment & Analysis, Data, Disaster preparedness, Disasters, COVID-19, humanitarian action, Humanitarian Principles
Organisations
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Link
https://centre.humdata.org/the-state-of-open-humanitarian-data-2021/

The goal of The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2021 is to increase awareness of the data that is available to inform humanitarian operations around the world and to highlight what is missing, as measured through OCHA’s Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform. In a year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on already-vulnerable populations, there was a record-breaking demand for data in the humanitarian sector coupled with persistent data gaps.

For 2020, HDX maintained Data Grids for 27 locations. This reflects the expansion of the Data Grids from previous years to cover all locations with a Humanitarian Response Plan. Added in 2020 were: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine and Zimbabwe.

Authors: 
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs