This paper sets out various dilemmas faced by practitioners undertaking fact-finding missions, based on a desk analysis and extensive...
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The Signal Code: A Human Rights Approach to Information During Crisis
Visit the Signal Code Minisite
The Signal Code is the result of a six month study by the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to...
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Negotiation with Non-State Armed Groups at the Frontlines
In many of today’s frontline humanitarian environments, access is increasingly difficult to obtain and maintain, and continued engagement with non-state armed actors is an integral aspect of ensuring assistance and protection activities and advocating for compliance with international legal...
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Data preparedness: connecting data, decision making and humanitarian response
Signal Program Standards and Ethics Series - Issue 1
Data are a central component of humanitarian response. Frequently, however, there is a disconnect between data, decision-making and response. Informed decisions need to be made in the first hours and days of an emergency, and if the...
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KoboToolbox’s Question Library
The KoBoToolbox Question Library enables users to create, store, share and re-use validated questions across surveys. This speeds up the process of creating new forms and contributes to the standardization of survey questions.
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Humanitarian Needs Assessment Training
The Humanitarian Needs Assessment E-learning program is designed to provide an overview of the Humanitarian Needs Assessment process. The process can look very different depending on the scale of a disaster, the role of humanitarian organizations involved and the resources available to any...
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Building a Better Response
The Building a Better Response e-learning course provides users with a comprehensive and practical introduction to engaging with the international humanitarian architecture. The e-learning component is publicly accessible free of charge.
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Eric Nilles |
Dr. Eric Nilles, MD MSc, is the Director of the Program on Infectious Diseases and Epidemics at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. He competed his... |
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| Trump Administration’s Immigration and Refugee Order Betrays Humanitarian Values and American Security |
The Trump administration’s executive order temporarily banning travel to the United States by immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – is not only cruel and misguided, but will do nothing to... |
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Data and Technology in Humanitarian Response Workshop |
In December of 2015, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will host a workshop focused on data and technology in humanitarian response. This working meeting will convene 35-40 experts and technologists from international NGOs, UN agencies, and other sectors to explore... |
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| OSCE SMM monitoring the movement of heavy weaponry in eastern Ukraine | ||||
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Susan Bartels | |||
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Birthe Anders |
Birthe holds a PhD in War Studies from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and a Diplom in Political Science and Law from Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany. Her research focusses on Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), NGO security and civil-military relations.... |
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Kelli N. O'Laughlin |
Dr. O’Laughlin is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Global Health at the University of Washington. Dr. O’Laughlin attended the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and completed emergency medicine residency at the University of California,... |
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| I am a community leader in a communal farming group |
I am a community leader in a communal farming group. We are working to reconcile people in community; even up to now some people in the communities still live in tension as a result because they do not yet have peace of mind. We left homes to live in camps. Later when the conflict calmed... |
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| The change we started to see here was when our children |
The change we started to see here was when our children from here volunteered take up bows and arrows to fight the rebels...When those sons of ours came out, we saw they were going to help us. Their presence scared away the LRA from their frequent attacks on this community.U11 |
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Hani Mowafi | |||
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Saira Khan |
Saira Khan is a researcher and data analyst at the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), where she uses GIS and satellite imagery as tools to analyze damage as a result of conflict and disaster, population displacement, and monitor... |
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Alexandros Lordos |
Dr. Alexandros Lordos holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Cyprus. Alexandros Lordos is Research Director of the Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development (SeeD). In this capacity, he has led the development of the... |
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| Urban: City Fragility and Resilience Framework |