Humanitarian action

United Nations Global Pulse’s Jakarta Lab (PLJ) and Digicel recently collaborated to analyse anonymised mobile network data to generate timely insights for the Vanuatu Government as well as humanitarian agencies.

Below are outlined some of the research in Vanuatu using mobile network data and how the research approach and findings may be relevant to Indonesia and other countries responding to similar crises.

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‘Tracking Process on Localisation: A Pacific Perspective’ will provide an important contribution to respecting and strengthening leadership by local authorities and the capacity of local civil society in humanitarian action.

Pastor Nafuki said “The global humanitarian sector is currently developing ways to measure progress on localisation following on from the commitments made at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in 2016.

The book also features putting local first, how to measure local leadership and the level of ownership.