In the beginning, setting up this kind of system can feel overwhelming (it's a big undertaking). This course provides a structured roadmap (linking to a full humanitarian resource toolkit for good data sharing) for coordinators and group members responsible for sharing personal beneficiary data.
How to use this course
Your Data
Your Data Survey
Lesson 1: Introduction...Is this the right course for you?
Lesson 2: What is data governance and why should I care?
Lesson 3: Data Management Models - Who “owns” data when it is shared?
Lesson 4: The 'Governance Stack'
Lesson 5: An Intro to the Toolkit
Lesson 6: Your Implementation Roadmap
Lesson 1: What Data Challenge are You Facing?
Lesson 2: Establish Your Context
Lesson 3: Establish Your Stakeholders & Who You’re Coordinating With
Lesson 4: Define Current Process for Data Sharing
Lesson 5: The Design Principles for Data Governance
Lesson 6: The Data Steward Solution
Lesson 7: Setting Milestone Targets
Lesson 8: Back to the Roadmap: Circulate Docs to Your Group & Prep Your Next Presentation
Lesson 1: Data Standards Overview
Lesson 2: Data Standards for Deduplication
Lesson 3: Data Standards for Deduplication (Part 2)
Lesson 4: Data Standards for Referrals
Lesson 5: Data Standards for Referrals (Part 2)
Lesson 1: What's in the Legal Layer?
Lesson 2: The Multi-Party Data Sharing Agreement Template
Lesson 1: Governance Layer Overview
Lesson 2: The Governance Framework
Lesson 3: Business Rules for Deduplication
Lesson 4: Business Rules for Referrals
Lesson 5: Memorandum of Understanding
Coordinators, Coordination groups, Consortium members, and Programme managers who need to share data inter-agency!
You’re unsure how to start setting up deduplication or a referral system for your coordination group.
‘Sharing data’ sounds like it should be easy, but it takes collective decision making and signed agreements that are difficult to put into practice
Are your coordinating agencies collecting the right data? Have you drilled into the 'data standard' that will actually allow your datasets to talk to one another?
You’re unsure how to draft fair and clear multi-organisation data-sharing agreements.
Your group wants accountable, collective data management - but the typical humanitarian models use a 'Command and Control' approach.
How can you structure a better way?
What is the right platform for managing inter-agency data sharing? Many don't support robust deduplication capabilities, and most don't do referrals at all.
When you sign up, you'll get access to the 'Data Sharing for Deduplication and Referrals' course as well as the global 'Online Community' where you'll be able to engage with other humanitarians on the topics taught in the course.
Instead of 'Command and Control' - understand how to become a good steward of people's data to act in their best interests.
Data Layer – setup a 'data standard'
Legal Layer – sign multi-party data-sharing agreements
Technical Layer – select the right platform for inter-agency collaboration
Governance Layer – agree SOPs and a framework for collective decision-making
Don't create tools from scratch - build on other humanitarians' templates so you can focus your time on contextualising for your country and group.
No one can design the way your group will share data and manage data well - except YOU! You'll create a roadmap that works for your context, your donors, your timelines, and the people receiving assistance in your programmes.
And complete your own implementation roadmap to get you on your way!
This training course is meant to be interactive. We use video-teaching to introduce the concepts, and use group discussions, polls, quizzes, and assignments to help participants put the concepts into action.
This course is part of our 'Data Stewardship' Learning Pathway.
Here are the other courses available in this pathway!
The course includes approximately 2.5 hours of video content, spread across six core modules.
However, as you progress through your roadmap, you may find it helpful to revisit lessons to reinforce key concepts—implementation takes time!
Yes, you will receive this upon completion of the course.
Currently, this course is available in English.
You will need a computer and internet connection to review the videos and download documents.
Other than that, a willingness to implement the concepts and tools will help you get the most from the course!
While there is no prerequisite for taking this course, we recommend you take the 'Data Class' course as a helpful overview of Data Rights, Data Protection, and Responsible Data Management.
This course has been supported by ECHO, ADH, and DEC.
DataStew, the Collaborative Cash Delivery Network, and World Vision offered core content themes and supported the review of the content with the Humanitarian Data Academy.
You can take this course alone however it's highly recommended for all organisational focal points in your coordination group to enroll and go through the course.
