This is how we build a stronger, data-driven humanitarian sector

Jan 13, 2017

Returnees from north Sudan wait in line for World Food Program (WFP) staff to start distributing food in Aweil in the northern Bahr el Ghazal state in south Sudan December 29, 2010. People from Sudan's oil-producing south are widely expected to vote to split away to form Africa's newest nation in a referendum scheduled to take place on January 9, 2011 that was promised in a 2005 peace deal ending a civil war between north and south. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTXW2UI

The sharing of information plays a vital role in developing effective humanitarian response. Image: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Stephen O'Brien

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks over a map of the area during a tour of a relief distribution center in Tacloban December 18, 2013. Kerry announced that the U.S. government, through USAID, will provide an additional nearly $25 million humanitarian aid for the survivors of super typhoon Haiyan, which decimated towns and villages around Tacloban on November 8, killing more than 6,000 people and displacing 4 million. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER SOCIETY) - RTX16N4D

US Secretary of State John Kerry on a tour of a relief distribution centre in the Philippines after the destruction of super typhoon Haiyan in November 2013 Image: REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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