ARD Name
1
The Accountability Archive
2
Carleton University Archives and Special Collections
3
KAC Archive
4
Against all odds game
5
The British Library for Development Studies
6
Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD)
7
GBVIMS Aggregate Reports (country-context rounds)
8
FEWS NET Livelihood Zone Baselines and Historical Analysis Products
9
Brian Reed’s WASH library
10
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
11
PEPFAR Data Systems and Reporting Archive
12
WFP Household Food Security Survey
13
Groupe URD
14
i-Eval Discovery
15
Labourdoc
16
USAID Development Data Library
17
Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH)
18
IPC/CH acute food security
19
Beneficiary Records and Activity Reports – Community Project
20
Joint Needs Assessment Humanitarian Forum Indonesia Report
21
Health Equity data
22
Policy Commons
23
Humanitarian Library
24
Aid in Danger
25
Disease Outbreaks data project
26
Harvard Dataverse
27
Figshare
28
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) / Export Tool
29
Ukraine – Frontline Monitoring
30
Global - Key Explosive Violence Incidents
31
USAID Knowledge Management Group
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Collection status
Material type
Purpose
Sector
Start year
End year
Update frequency
Custodian
Custodian type
Geographic scope
Archival status
Description
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Social media content
Audio or Video
Website or web content
Protection legal and accountability documentation
Research and evidence
Advocacy and communications
Accountability
Other
2023
Continuous
The Accountability Archive (Al-Asfour)
Academic
Community
Other
Select region/s
Select country/countries
Accessible and in use
The Accountability Archive is a crowdsourced collection of over 100,000 entries showing holder speech justifying violations of IHL, including the targeting of medical professionals, aid workers, and journalists. Its focus is Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen and Iran. The archive also contains examples of journalistic malfeasance, fabricated reports, and the defamation of individuals and organisations working in the Middle East.
Active and ongoing
Documents
Images
Audio or Video
Other
Policy and strategic documentation
Oral history testimony and memory
Programme monitoring and performance data
Evaluation and learning
Research and evidence
Advocacy and communications
Beneficiary and community records
Health
Food security
Shelter
Displacement
Education
Disaster Risk Reduction
Protection
Coordination
Livelihoods
2017
Ad hoc
Archives and Special Collections, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Academic
Global
Accessible and in use
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Evaluation and learning
Programme monitoring and performance data
Food security
Shelter
Livelihoods
Disaster Risk Reduction
Accountability
Coordination
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
2017
Continuous
Key Aid Consulting
Global
Accessible and in use
More than 150 evaluations - large source of learning and accountability materials
Completed or closed
Other
Advocacy and communications
Displacement
2000
2015
One-off
UNHCR
INGO
Accessible and in use
UNHCR archives restored and preserved the game and it is being used again. But it took a lot of effort and partnership. The game costs a lot to develop so we decided it was worth preserving.
Active and ongoing
Documents
Paper collections
Programme monitoring and performance data
Evaluation and learning
Protection legal and accountability documentation
Research and evidence
Advocacy and communications
Oral history testimony and memory
Health
Food security
Shelter
Displacement
Education
Livelihoods
Disaster Risk Reduction
Accountability
Coordination
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
1966
Ad hoc
University of Sussex
Academic
Accessible and in use
The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) Legacy Collection is a major research resource managed by the University of Sussex Library. It contains over one million items, including government reports, pamphlets, and international agency documents tracking development interventions since the 1960s.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Protection legal and accountability documentation
Research and evidence
Accountability
Protection
1997
Annually
Humanitarian Outcomes
Think tank
Accessible and in use
The only global longitudinal record of major security incidents affecting aid workers (killings, kidnappings, attacks), going back to 1997. Maintained by Humanitarian Outcomes, a small consultancy with no institutional endowment.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Protection legal and accountability documentation
Beneficiary and community records
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
2006
Ad hoc
GBVIMS Steering Committee (IRC, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, IMC)
INGO
UN
Accessible but at risk
The GBVIMS was created to harmonize data collection on GBV in humanitarian settings, to provide a simple system for GBV project managers to collect, store and analyze their data, and to enable the safe and ethical sharing of reported GBV incident data.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Research and evidence
Food security
Livelihoods
1999
Ad hoc
FEWS NET
INGO
Government
Accessible but at risk
FEWS NET has produced livelihood zone baselines, market price series, and food security scenario analysis across sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia since 1999.
Active and ongoing
Documents
Images
Paper collections
Research and evidence
Advocacy and communications
Policy and strategic documentation
Other
Other
1890
Continuous
Brian Reed
Individual
Exists but inaccessible
A large collection of WASH publications collected from various libraries as they shut. Also collections of books as colleagues retire. Adding reports weekly. Catalogue on Zotero
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Programme monitoring and performance data
Research and evidence
Beneficiary and community records
Health
Food security
Displacement
Gender and Inclusion
1984
Ad hoc
ICF
Private sector
Accessible but at risk
The DHS Program has conducted standardised household surveys in over 90 countries since 1984, producing the primary evidence base for maternal and child health, nutrition, fertility, HIV, and gender-based violence at national and subnational level.
Interrupted or uncertain
Dataset
Documents
Website or web content
Integrated business systems
Programme monitoring and performance data
Research and evidence
Financial and administrative records
Beneficiary and community records
Health
Accountability
Coordination
2003
Continuous
US Department of State / USAID
Government
Accessible but at risk
PEPFAR has operated since 2003 across 54 countries, funding treatment for over 20 million people and generating 20+ years of patient-level programme data, clinical monitoring records, country operational plans, and health system infrastructure data. Following the January 2025 US foreign aid freeze, PEPFAR's own data systems were shut down, eliminating the ability to track impacts on services. PEPFAR reporting data has been publicly unavailable for months, with the government website showing it is "undergoing updates" and 2025 data report release dates listed as "TBD."
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Programme monitoring and performance data
Food security
Displacement
2005
Continuous
WFP
UN
Accessible but at risk
WFP primary data feeds into a host of planning processes essential for humanitarian coordination — the IPC, West Africa's Cadre Harmonisé, the Joint Interagency Assessment Framework, the World Bank's Joint Monitoring Reports, and the UN's Humanitarian Needs and Response Plans. Following aid funding cuts, only 800,000 WFP interviews took place in 2025, down from 1.1 million in 2024, and only 18 WFP offices conducted real-time monitoring in 2025, down from 35 in 2022. Beyond reduced volume, WFP data teams have reduced the frequency of household data collection rounds from two to one per year, reduced sample sizes and aggregated data resulting in less granular estimates, and some geographies thought to be less vulnerable are no longer monitored at all.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Audio or Video
Website or web content
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Programme monitoring and performance data
Evaluation and learning
Research and evidence
Advocacy and communications
Food security
Shelter
Displacement
Disaster Risk Reduction
Protection
Other
1993
Continuous
Groupe URD
Think tank
Accessible and in use
Founded in 1993, Groupe URD is an independent think tank that specialises in analysing practices and developing policies for the humanitarian sector. Our multi-disciplinary expertise, based on continual field visits to crisis and post-crisis contexts, provides us with insight into the functioning of the sector as a whole. We believe in sharing knowledge and collective learning, and we help aid actors to improve the quality of their programmes.
Active and ongoing
Documents
Evaluation and learning
Displacement
Education
Livelihoods
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
2001
Ad hoc
UN
Accessible and in use
i-Eval Discovery is the ILO's online database of all evaluations.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Images
Audio or Video
Research and evidence
Education
Livelihoods
Accountability
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
Other
Ad hoc
ILO
UN
The ILO's only repository of all evidence, research, papers, and data.
Completed or closed
Dataset
Programme monitoring and performance data
Evaluation and learning
Research and evidence
Financial and administrative records
Health
Food security
Shelter
Displacement
Education
Livelihoods
Disaster Risk Reduction
Accountability
Coordination
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
2018
2025
Weekly
USAID
Government
Already lost
Interrupted or uncertain
Documents
Images
Audio or Video
Emails
Social media content
Paper collections
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Protection legal and accountability documentation
Research and evidence
Coordination and inter-agency records
Advocacy and communications
Oral history testimony and memory
Displacement
Livelihoods
Accountability
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
1982
Continuous
COFADEH
National NGO
Community
Uncertain
The archive of COFADEH gathers testimonies, legal documents, photographs, and correspondence documenting forced disappearances and human rights violations in Honduras, particularly during the 1980s. It holds records created by families searching for disappeared relatives, alongside evidence collected to demand truth and justice: witness statements, forensic reports, petitions, and case files. This material matters because it transforms "private" grief into collective memory and political evidence. The archive resists erasure by preserving the names, stories, and struggles of those who were made to vanish. It also supports ongoing legal processes and advocacy, offering crucial documentation for accountability efforts at both national and international levels. Beyond its evidentiary value, the archive is a living site of resistance. It shows how families and communities organize against silence, insisting that disappearance does not end a life’s presence in history. In this way, the COFADEH archive is an active tool for justice, memory, and the defense of human rights today.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Other
Food security
Other
2004
Quarterly
IPC
Other
Already lost
The key consensus based process for understanding a cute food insecurity (current and projected). Critical for understanding famine risk.
Completed or closed
Dataset
Documents
Images
Paper collections
Protection legal and accountability documentation
Beneficiary and community records
Health
Food security
Displacement
2023
2024
Daily
Ibrahim Arandas
Community
Already lost
This dataset includes beneficiary records and activity reports from a community-based project implemented by a local organization. It contains information on participants, services delivered, project outputs, and basic monitoring and evaluation data used to track progress and outcomes. The material is important because it documents how humanitarian and development interventions are delivered at the local level, providing insights into community needs, response effectiveness, and implementation challenges. It supports accountability, reporting, and learning, and can inform future project design and decision-making. If lost, this data would result in a significant gap in institutional memory, making it difficult to assess past impact, avoid repeated mistakes, or build on previous experience. It would also weaken transparency and reduce the ability of organizations to demonstrate results to stakeholders and donors
Completed or closed
Dataset
Documents
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Health
Food security
Shelter
Displacement
Coordination
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
2015
2024
Ad hoc
Humanitarian Forum Indonesia
National NGO
Accessible but at risk
Data Joint Needs Assessment was time limited. Assessment in emergency response to gets gaps in the needs of communities affected by disasters. Assessment was done in some location effected disaster surrounding in Indonesia. The assessment template has undergone changes more than 5 times. Changes are based on developments in the field and the institutions involved in developing the assessment tool.
Interrupted or uncertain
Dataset
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Health
2000
2014
Annually
University of Andes
Academic
Accessible and in use
Metrics of Sustainable Health Equity This web is meant to facilitate and interact with students, scholars and all advocates of the universal right to health, on sustainable health equity. It Is based on the collective aspiration (healthier lives) which are feasible for all, as reflected in WHO 1947 Constitution. The analysis is based on the identificacion of a minimum threshold of health (measured by life expectancy) which Is economically feasible for all and ecologically sustainable for coming generations. Such threshold (HRS : healthy, replicable and sustainable) allows the estimate of the burden of health inequity -BHiE (unfair inequality) measured in: net (n-BHiE : excess mortality) and relative (r-BHiE : % of deaths) terms. Excessive income and carbon emissions undermine the lives of others who do not hace enough and the coming generations who will suffer climate warming. The analysis deducts from national average life expectancy at birth, its negative effects on others and estimates the index of wellbeing in sustainable equity. The indicators hereby reflected in dashboards, maps, documents and videos, are based on the analysis of over 2 million international data from 1960 until now. I sincerely hope it helps every person, effort and initiative in the world aimed to progress towards the universal rights to health. Link: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYzk5YWIzODAtZjE4YS00OTUxLWE1ZjUtMmQ2MWIzYTcwOGRmIiwidCI6ImZhYmQwNDdjLWZmNDgtNDkyYS04YmJiLThmOThiOWZiOWNjYSIsImMiOjR9
Active and ongoing
Documents
Audio or Video
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Programme monitoring and performance data
Evaluation and learning
Protection legal and accountability documentation
Research and evidence
Coordination and inter-agency records
Advocacy and communications
Financial and administrative records
Beneficiary and community records
Oral history testimony and memory
Policy and strategic documentation
Health
Food security
Shelter
Displacement
Education
Livelihoods
Disaster Risk Reduction
Accountability
Coordination
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
Other
1989
Continuous
Coherent Digital
INGO
National NGO
UN
Academic
Community
Government
Private sector
Think tank
Individual
Other
Accessible and in use
Policy Commons indexes and preserves content from over 33,000 organizations. To date (April 2026) it has indexed 40 million items. Of the 33k organizations, some 500 are no longer active. In 2025, in response to the situation in the USA, we started rescuing ar-risk federal content, including USAID. We are working with a USAID alumni group to rescue and re-mount 250k USAID documents. We work with other groups, e.g. Oxford Policy Management to archive project websites.
Active and ongoing
Documents
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Programme monitoring and performance data
Evaluation and learning
Research and evidence
Advocacy and communications
Policy and strategic documentation
Health
Food security
Shelter
Displacement
Education
Livelihoods
Disaster Risk Reduction
Accountability
Coordination
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
2013
Ad hoc
Shelter Centre
INGO
Accessible and in use
The Humanitarian Library is the only inter-agency, inter-sector, crowd-sourced and community-moderated platform in the humanitarian space. It was launched in late 2013, so its document base is a reflection of user adoption since then. As the Library was built upon their earlier sectoral platform ‘Shelter Library’, supported by DFID, technical content includes publications from 2005. Development of the concept was undertaken by Shelter Centre, a Geneva-based NGO focused on supporting a global humanitarian community of practice who work to address the transitional settlement and reconstruction needs of populations affected by conflicts and natural disasters. Funding for the development of the platform was provided by USAID.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Other
Coordination
Other
2008
Insecurity Insight
Other
The Aid in Danger project collects data on any event that interferes with the delivery of aid, including threats and incidents of violence against aid workers and aid agencies and its effects on access for aid agencies. Aid in Danger makes information and analysis available to aid security professionals and policy makers.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Health
1996
Monthly
University of Göttingen, University of Groningen, University of Bordeaux
Academic
Accessible and in use
The Disease Outbreaks Data Project arose from the need for open, reliable information on pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks, offering broad coverage of diseases, time periods, and geography, and ensuring statistical soundness for research purposes. The dataset provided is the result of a collaborative effort by a team of researchers from the University of Göttingen, the University of Groningen, and the University of Bordeaux. The project was made possible through financial support from the ENLIGHT network, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Germany.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Programme monitoring and performance data
Evaluation and learning
Research and evidence
Oral history testimony and memory
Policy and strategic documentation
Health
Food security
Displacement
Livelihoods
Disaster Risk Reduction
Coordination
Protection
Gender and Inclusion
2006
Unknown
Harvard
Academic
Accessible and in use
The Humanitarian Dataverse is a specialized collection within the Harvard Dataverse repository designed to host, preserve, and cite rigorous research-grade evidence from crisis zones. Unlike operational portals that focus on real-time coordination, this material primarily contains primary research data, including multi-sector needs assessments (MSNAs), longitudinal household surveys, and anonymized population displacement tracking from agencies like UNHCR, IOM, and OCHA.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Documents
Images
Audio or Video
Website or web content
Evaluation and learning
Research and evidence
Advocacy and communications
Other
Health
Disaster Risk Reduction
Gender and Inclusion
Other
2012
Continuous
Digital Science
Private sector
Accessible and in use
Figshare is a general-purpose, open-access repository used by researchers and NGOs to share diverse outputs including datasets, posters, and code. In the humanitarian context, it is frequently used to host supplemental data for academic journals, infographics for advocacy, and disaster risk modeling. It provides a citable home (via DOIs) for non-traditional humanitarian outputs that might otherwise be lost in internal drives.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Website or web content
Other
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Other
Health
Shelter
Disaster Risk Reduction
Other
2010
Continuous
HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
INGO
Accessible and in use
HOT provides the base maps for humanitarian response. When a disaster strikes, thousands of volunteers digitize satellite imagery to create maps of buildings and roads. This data is then archived and made available as open-source GIS datasets for responders.
Completed or closed
Dataset
Needs assessment and situation analysis
Other
Coordination
Other
2024
2025
Ad hoc
Aqlity
INGO
Accessible and in use
This dataset is part of AQLITY’s Security, Logistics, Access and Cash Feasibility (SLAC) Monitoring tool. It captures granular, settlement-level data collected through direct observation and key informant interviews across eastern Ukraine. The dataset includes information on population presence and vulnerability, access constraints, availability of basic services, market functionality, infrastructure damage, and cash feasibility. Each record reflects a specific assessment round in a given settlement and contributes to tracking humanitarian access and service availability in hard-to-reach and high-risk areas. The dataset is intended to provide operational data for humanitarian organisations and prompt further assessment and/or principled response.
Active and ongoing
Dataset
Other
Protection
Other
2011
2024
Annually
Action on Armed Violence (AOAV)
INGO
Accessible and in use
Active and ongoing
Documents
Other
Evaluation and learning
Research and evidence
Policy and strategic documentation
Other
2025
Continuous
Informal group of former usaid staff
Community
Individual
Other
Uncertain
Stacey Young former usaid staff and her colleageues are one of the leading people of the working group and there is a linked in community group which even has already some funding to rescue as much as possible from the usaid legacy