We improve the effectiveness of international development efforts by understanding and encouraging what works using rigorous, actionable and engaging evidence.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

Connecting people and data to improve lives

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

• Google

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Sahana EDEN ASP is an open source humanitarian aid management application with a specific focus on refugee case management.

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

the first and only Multi-Stakeholder Question & Answer Community for refugee topics

• refugees

• The Tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Pro bono and volunteer

Techfugees is an initiative that supports the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world. It also enables the creation and application of tech-enabled solutions to manage migration.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• The People
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Wish you had a better way to make sense of Twitter during disasters than this? Type in a keyword like #ChileEarthquake in Twitter's search box above and you'll see more tweets than you can possibly read in a day let alone keep up with for more than a few minutes

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

• crisis
• Google
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Foresight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

The Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide supports evaluation specialists and non-specialists in every stage of an evaluation, from initial decision to final dissemination.

• The People
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

• human rights

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Everyone a humanitarian

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

REUNITE's family tracing platform helps refugees and displaced persons search, connect and communicate with their loved ones. Here is how we do it.

• refugees

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

Crisis Response is a place on Facebook where you can find information about recent crises, use Safety Check to connect with friends and loved ones during a crisis, give or find help to people in the affected area, and create or donate to fundraisers to support recovery efforts.

• Facebook

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing