HERA's First Project
As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads in Africa, the Covid-19 Data Project starts. Our teams build a solid methodology and look for reliable sources to update our future datasets.
HERA was established in 2020 as a non profit organization to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our teams started the Covid-19 Data Project to support governments, non governmental organizations and research institutes evaluate, anticipate and respond to the spread of Coronavirus on the African continent.
As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads in Africa, the Covid-19 Data Project starts. Our teams build a solid methodology and look for reliable sources to update our future datasets.
Our teams are looking for a place to share the datasets. We contact UNOCHA to offer our support. Two weeks later, our datasets can be found on Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).
We focus our work on finding disaggregated data, creating a subnational database of Covid-19 in West Africa. The dataset on Nigeria becomes the most downloaded file on our page.
We enrich our datasets by providing city level data to learn more about the Covid-19 spread at the local level in west African countries.
Overall, HERA believes that the humanitarian ecosystem has become obsolete. NGOs and local communities face multiple challenges that prevent humanitarian assistance from being efficient, rapid and appropriate.
We favor transparency in our interventions with every stakeholder we encounter. We believe that this will help individuals and partners gain trust in our actions and will open the humanitarian system to the public. We want to make our actions as transparent as possible while giving the opportunity for everyone to be fully informed of our actions.
We strongly believe that communities are the ones that should elaborate on the humanitarian programs which they are concerned with. We want to build a more inclusive and cohesive humanitarian system, which will give local actors the opportunity to become resilient through crises.
We encourage the development of initiatives in the digital and technological world, as long as it is supporting humanitarian action. We focus our work on providing reliable data about humanitarian crises to support NGOs in their response. We see agility as an opportunity to act as a flexible actor and make a change in that current frigid humanitarian system.