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Information management, needs assessment, mapping

GAPS BETWEEN THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION IN EMERGENCIES

In conflict and natural disaster contexts, aid actors face serious challenges in collecting data in a systematic and comprehensive way, often resulting in significant gaps in the information required for designing, planning and evaluating aid.

REACH was created to fill these gaps in order to promote evidence-based humanitarian action.

LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF CRISIS-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES AND THEIR SETTLEMENTS

Humanitarian action is typically structured around the linear relationship between household needs and sector-specific response. Conversely, crisis affected populations have multiple needs and often turn first to community support networks in their settlement.

REACH promotes a better understanding of crisis-affected communities within their settlements.

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WHY WAS REACH CREATED?

REACH WAS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO TWO CRITICAL GAPS IN THE HUMANITARIAN SYSTEM

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OURMISSION

REACH is a joint initiative of IMPACT, its sister-organisation ACTED, and the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). REACH was created in 2010 to facilitate the development of information tools and products that enhance the humanitarian community’s decision-making and planning capacity.

All REACH activities are conducted in support of and within the framework of interagency coordination mechanisms.

WHAT IS REACH?

Humanitarian actors effectively

respond to the needs of crisis-affected

communities

To strengthen evidence based decision

making by humanitarian actors through

efficient data collection, management and

analysis in contexts of crisis.

OURVISION

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REACH STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

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1All REACH activities are grounded in a Strategic Framework and organised around three pillars:

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Planning in Emergencies: Access to information is critical for effective aid delivery in situations of conflict or natural disaster. REACH supports the timely and systematic provision of information to facilitate better planning and coordination among humanitarian actors.

Displacement: Characterized by fluid population movement over wide affected areas, displacement contexts pose specific challenges for humanitarian response. REACH supports humanitarian planning in camp and non-camp settings, and informs planning around return and durable solutions.

Building Community Resilience: An understanding of community dynamics enables more effective humanitarian planning and response, and facilitates the transition towards reconstruction and long term recovery. REACH supports humanitarian actors to build community resilience.

Displacement in camps

Out of camp displacement

Returns and durable solutions

STRATEGIC PILLAR 1

PLANNING IN EMERGENCIES

Rapid Needs and Vulnerability Assessments

Situation Monitoring in Protracted Crisis

Response Monitoring and Evaluation

Support to Decentralised Humanitarian Hubs

STRATEGIC PILLAR 3

BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE

Community Dynamics Mapping

Access to Social Services

Economic and Market Analysis

Hazard and vulnerability mapping

STRATEGIC PILLAR 2

DISPLACEMENT

PILLAR 2

DISPLACEMENT

PILLAR 3

COMMUNITY

RESILIENCE

PILLAR 1PLANNING IN EMERGENCIES

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PREPAREDNESS STATIC MAP WEB MAP SECONDARY DATAREVIEW

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WHAT WE DO

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REACH combines modern information technology with tailored assessment methodologies, tools and processes, which are adapted to each emergency context and to the requirements of aid actors and coordination mechanisms.

INTER-AGENCY ASSESSMENTS

REACH conducts and facilitates field based assessments through dedicated teams of data collectors, encoders and analysers.

REMOTE SENSING

REACH uses remote-sensing and satellite imagery analysis as complementary tools for rapid primary data collection.

SECONDARY DATA REVIEWS

REACH reviews secondary data in order to inform primary data collection methodologies and context analyses.



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REACH maintains a Resource Centre as a platform for publishing and sharing REACH maps, reports and tools. The Resource Centre can be accessed at www.reachresourcecentre.info

REPORTS

REACH teams analyse and disseminate information to aid actors through a range of tailor-made products such as reports, profiles, situation overviews and factsheets.

MAPS

REACH produces and disseminates static maps to display information in a user-friendly format. Where relevant, REACH sets up field-based mapping centres to facilitate access to spatial data by a wide range of actors.

WEB-MAPS & ONLINE DASHBOARDS

REACH develops interactive web-maps and online dashboards to allow aid actors to access and manipulate key information themselves. Open and transparent, the information can be used by all actors to support their programs.

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ONGOING FIELD PRESENCE

PREVIOUS OPERATIONS

REACH maintains a continuous presence of assessment and information management specialists in protracted emergencies.

Upon request from global partners, REACH teams are also deployed to other emergencies to conduct rapid field support missions.

OUR TEAM

The REACH global team is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and includes specialists in data collection, data management and analysis.

The REACH global team also provides backstopping and guidance to the REACH field teams at country level.

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The REACH consortium comprises IMPACT, its sister organisation ACTED,

and UNOSAT. REACH brings together and builds upon the complementary expertise and capacities of the three consortium partners at the global and country level. 9

Provides remote sensing expertise & technical

support

Hosts and facilitates REACH field operations

REACH CONSORTIUM

Manages REACH Global & Country Teams and oversees

global strategy & programming

OUR PARTNERS

REACH promotes a collaborative approach among aid actors and supports established inter-agency coordination mechanisms at the global and country levels. REACH is an active member of the global humanitarian system, notably through its participation in several bodies of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, as well as through its active engagement in global clusters.

GLOBAL CLUSTERS

UN AGENCIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

GLOBAL FUNDING AGENCIES

Protection Cluster

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Assessments Somalia Information Management WASH Partnership Mobile Data Collection Analysis Jordan Databases Maps Niger Emergency response Iraq Remote Sensing

Food Security Satellite Imagery Philippines Recovery Shelter Clusters Preparedness Mali Web-mapping Lebanon Resilience Humanitarian Program Cycle South Sudan

www.reach-initiative.org

CONTACT US

www.reach-initative.org +41 22 566 29 63 @REACH_info Geneva, [email protected]

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