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IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) for the Education Cluster: A Guidance

Guidance on obtaining useful data from IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) to inform emergency education planning and response

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

QGIS Tutorial: How to Join an Excel File to a Shapefile

A useful walkthrough on how to join your data in excel to a Shapefile in QGIS to start creating a map.

  • Capacity Development: Trainings and Resource Materials
  • Coordination: Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis

Humanitarian Profile Support Guidances

The objective of this guidance is to provide an overview of definitions, methods and good practice on how to derive overall, inter-sectoral humanitarian population figures. These include estimates of the number of people affected by a given emergency as well as in need of, targeted by and reached…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy, Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

Guidance Note on Sampling Strategies

Sampling is the process of collecting information from a subset of the entire population; this allows you to collect data from a significantly reduced number of locations and informants, cutting costs and time, while still obtaining needed information. This guidance note focuses on three types of…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

Guidance Note on Data Visualization

A useful guidance document to help you select the best chart to visualise your data.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis

Data Cleaning

This document provides guidance for data analysts to find the right data cleansing strategy when dealing with needs assessment data. The guidance is applicable to both primary and secondary data.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis

Calculating People in Need Guidance

Guidance and instructions to help coordination teams calculate people in need of EiE.

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy, Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

MODULE DE RÉFÉRENCE DE L’IASC POUR LA MISE EN ŒUVRE DU CYCLE DE PROGRAMME HUMANITAIRE

The IASC Reference Module for the Implementation of the Humanitarian Program Cycle defines the roles and responsibilities of international humanitarian actors and the way that they interact with each other, national and local authorities, civil society and with people affected by crises. This…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Resource Mobilisation, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Defining an Indicator

This document is intended to help you develop SMART indicators.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

The Role of an Information Management Officer in Humanitarian Response

This document defines the broad concepts and role of Information Management in the context of a humanitarian response. It provides recommendation on ways forward for strengthening information management, and concludes with overarching guidance on the role of IM within the context of a typical…

  • Coordination: Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Strategic Planning

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