About the HumanitarianResponse.info sites

Humanitarian Response

 

Humanitarian Response is a specialised digital service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Humanitarian Response aims to be the central website for Information Management tools and services, enabling information exchange among operational responders during either a protracted or sudden onset emergency. This global site is complimented by country specific emergency sites that can be accessed through www.HumanitarianResponse.info.

At the global level, Humanitarian Response provides access to country sites and a "one-stop-shop" for global information coordination resources, such as normative products including guidance notes and policies, cluster specific information and data, toolboxes and internet links.
 

At the country level, Humanitarian Response is designed to provide a platform for sharing operational information between clusters and IASC members operating within a crisis. It provides a predictable set of core features that will be repeated on all sites and will host future tools for streamlining information collection sharing and visualisation.


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Mission

Humanitarian Response aims at complementing the information management capabilities of the national authorities and in-country development and humanitarian organisations alike by optimising information availability during an emergency.

Vision

Humanitarian Response aims at centralising Information Management tools and services in a unique platform that can be tailored by country or emergency. It is a widely accessible tool and is designed to work on mobile platforms and is available in multiple languages.

The site has been built in such a way that, if required, partners and OCHA sections can develop and integrate additional, specialised components into the core Humanitarian Response site, thereby making them universally available during emergencies (Needs Assessment, Humanitarian Access, and so forth).

Humanitarian Response does not add an additional burden to OCHA country offices rather it replaces existing operational country sites used to share published and raw information alike.

Key dates

2012

2013

Interesting facts

 

  • In 2012, across all sites, there were over 31,500 visits with over 119,800 page views;

  • Mali HR.info alone had over 35,000 page views in the final six months of 2012;

  • 20 versions of the technical HR.info platform were released during 2012;

  • 24 templates (for new sites) were deployed in 2012.

  • Languages: Available in English, French, and Russian. Spanish is 98% translated and Arabic is 56% translated;

  • Other than when we transferred our domain management from GoDaddy, our only major outage in 2012 was 16 minutes long (with no data lose) in late November;

  • HR.info is mobile responsive;

  • HR.info page size is 4 times smaller than that of OneResponse.info mobile pages (and 4 times faster)

 

Our partners

 

Humanitarian Response sites are created and maintained mainly by OCHA field offices and the Global clusters.

The list of OCHA field offices which currently have a Humanitarian Response site is still growing. The up-to-date list can be found on http://www.humanitarianresponse.info/crises

The list Global Cluster pages using the Humanitarian Response platform can be found on http://www.humanitarianresponse.info/clusters

OCHA is also working to better integrate ReliefWeb, Humanitarian Response and IRIN to ensure that OCHA provides a consistent range of complimentary humanitarian information services to all members of the humanitarian community.