Reports
Reports
Data sharing in humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA): A look at risks, threats and mitigation technologies
Summary:
This report concluded a research into key risks and threats related to data sharing in CVA. It offers some key findings and observations, a mapping of the general landscape of relevant risks, and an evaluation of some of the technologies that came up in the research as potential mitigation measures.
Dignified Identities in humanitarian action: Journey and reflection
Summary:
This report summarizes the journey and achievements of the Dignified Identity in Cash Assistance (DIGID) consortium to develop, test and validate the humanitarian digital identity concept it launched in 2019 in cash assistance and continuity of health care, and in migration contexts in Kenya and Uganda.
Digital identity: Enabling Dignified Access to Humanitarian Services in Migration
Summary:
This report sheds light on the needs and concerns of people on the move when it comes to identification, based on interviews with a range of migration experts and stakeholders. The report also makes specific recommendations for organisations contemplating the use of digital technology to identify the migrants they serve.
Digital Identity: An analysis for the humanitarian sector
Summary:
The ability to prove one’s identity is an increasingly important aspect of contemporary society. But identification can represent a significant challenge to people receiving humanitarian aid. Advances in technology hold much promise in the form of digital identification.
Dignified ID in Cash Assistance in East Africa
Summary:
Digital interventions must be disseminated in enabling environments that allow the services to operate efficiently and ethically. Trends that enable successful digital ID solutions include (1) trust, (2) standards and policy, and (3) ICT infrastructure; in addition to overarching global initiatives and collaborations.
Investigating Safe Data Sharing and Systems Interoperability in Humanitarian Cash Assistance
Summary:
This report offers a technical landscaping of the current state of data sharing and interoperability in the sector and evaluates the potential of emerging technologies and operating models to address challenges in current approaches. The analysis is focused on cash programming, and specifically on two use cases: deduplication of beneficiaries, and referrals of individuals.
Enabling Dignified Humanitarian Assistance Through Safe Data Sharing
Summary:
The landscape mapping report is divided into five separate reports. The overview report covers high-level drivers and challenges, opportunities for improving the interoperability of systems and data sharing in the context of cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Then four separate ‘use case’ reports relate to ‘pain points’ in the overall CVA business process.
USE CASE 1 – Deduplication of people, families or households
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Deduplication of people, families or households
USE CASE 2 – Organizational referral
Summary:
Sharing data on which organisations can provide what kind of support to whom
USE CASE 3 – Individual referral
Summary:
Sharing data on a person with a partner, donor or government for follow-up services
USE CASE 4 – Vertical integration
Summary:
Sharing data on a person with a payments or messaging provider to extend services