The Mercy Corps Data Rapid Institutional Crisis Response (RICR) tool is a critical improvement in enabling data-driven crisis management. Featuring advanced cloud-based ETL pipelines and a user-friendly web interface, RICR ensures continuous data updates and easy access. This tool empowers early-stage response teams with critical, real-time data, facilitating faster and more effective humanitarian actions.
Overview
The Mercy Corps Data Rapid Institutional Crisis Response tool (RICR) allows Mercy Corps analysts to analyze, visualize, interact with, and interpret data. RICR supports early warning and pre-crisis planning efforts within the humanitarian community of practice.
Challenge
When a crisis happens, early-stage response teams need data to plan their actions. The lack of systemic, routinely updated data means that critical aid decisions are delayed, made with limited information, or not made at all.
Outcome
Deploy ETL pipelines in the cloud that provide an always updated data catalog and build an API and a web interface to give users easy access to the data collections. This leads to faster, data-informed decison-making and response.
Activity regions page
List and map of activity regions.Country page
List of regions and datasets related to a country.Dataset page
Dataset page, with multiple data format options, map visualization and features list.
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