The Open Humanitarian Initiative is a 5-year public-private partnership aimed at making humanitarian response more data-driven. It includes multiple task forces working on areas like interoperability, innovation, and big data. The Open Humanitarian Alliance governs the initiative and is made up of humanitarian organizations, governments, donors, private sector, and academia. The Open Humanitarian Fund provides $15-20 million over 5 years to support projects improving data-driven humanitarian response.

1. Open Humanitarian Initiative
Bringing humanitarian response
to the information age

2. The Problem

3. Progress So Far…

4. Next Steps

5. The Main Pieces of the Puzzle

6. Open Humanitarian Initiative
• Five year initiative focused on making
humanitarian response more data driven
• Broad and ambitious public-private
partnership effort
• Participant driven effort, split into multiple
task forces
• Funded through Open Humanitarian Fund
• Governed by Open Humanitarian Alliance

7. OHI Building Blocks

8. OHI Task Forces

9. Open Humanitarian Alliance
• Alliance of organizations from:
– Humanitarian organizations
• UN Agencies & International Organizations
• NGOs
– Governments
– Donors
• Multi-lateral
• Bi-lateral
• Foundations
– Private Sector
– Academia
• Objective of the alliance is to help drive forward data driven humanitarian
response
• Main role is to act as the governance mechanism for the Open
Humanitarian Initiative
• NetHope acts as the secretariat for alliance

10. Open Humanitarian Fund
• Multi-partner trust fund, focused on
improving data driven humanitarian response
• A funding committee made up from donors
and Open Humanitarian Alliance members
determines funding priorities for Open
Humanitarian Initiative projects
• Estimated funding requirement over the five
year period is $15M-$20M

11. Timeline – 12 months
Open Humanitarian Incubator (Feb 2013-Dec 2013)

12. Appendix 1
TASK FORCE DEFINITIONS

13. OHI Project Committee

14. Knowledge Platform Task
Force

15. Interoperability Task Force

16. Innovation Team Task Force

17. IM Training Task Force

18. Big Data/Mobile Data Task Force

19. Community Response Task Force

20. Decision Making Task Force