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CCD/World Vision/DGID 2024. Author, Mark Bonyo. Following the publication of the Donor Cash Forum Statement and Guiding Principles on Interoperability of Data Systems in Humanitarian Cash Programming, the European Union Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) funded the Collaborative Cash Delivery Network (CCD) and Dignified Identities in Cash assistance (DIGID) consortium projects in 2022. A data stewardship model developed by CCD, based on a Stack Approach comprising data, technical, legal, and governance layers, is being tested in South Sudan with participating organisations from both the CCD and DIGID consortiums. The project aims to apply principles of data stewardship to solve key collective action problems, with a focus on deduplication and referral mechanisms. The South Sudan Data Stewardship Proof of Concept (PoC) Workshop supported by ECHO was held in Juba on 22th and 23rd February 2024 as a follow-up to the Design Workshop with CCD and DIGID consortia partners in 2023. The first day (technical discussion) was reserved for CCD and DIGID partners, while the second day (engagement and strategic discussion) was open to external stakeholders - including ECHO, other CCD partners, UN Agencies (FAO, IOM, UNOCHA, UNICEF, UNHCR, and WFP). The South Sudan Cash Working Group was also represented.

CCD/World Vision 2024. Author, Paul Currion. In 2023-24 the CCD Network developed pilot projects to address challenges such as referrals and deduplication, while improving data governance. This note explains some key concepts relating to our research and development.

Ground Truth Solutions/CCD / World Vision International, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology 2023. Lead author, Serhii Tytiuk. Cash and voucher assistance has emerged as an instrumental tool for relief in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian cash response has become the largest cash initiative the humanitarian sector has ever witnessed. In this highly digital humanitarian response, concerns exist regarding collecting and sharing personal data. Aid organisations need certain information for verification and de-duplication, so this raises pertinent questions: What kind of data is being collected? And for what purposes? Is it for de-duplication, identification, donor requirements, or other reasons? We conducted qualitative consultations with 15 people who applied for cash assistance. We followed this with phone surveys of 1,005 people living in Ukraine to understand their data-sharing behaviour, their perceptions of data protection, and their information needs and concerns.

CCD / World Vision International 2023. Author, Paul Currion. Following research carried out by CCD in 2022, a consultant was engaged to develop the design process. The process began with separate webinars delivered to CCD members in South Sudan and Ukraine, followed by Q&A sessions. Following the webinars, a series of design sessions were held remotely with each country, engaging with a group of staff proposed by CCD members. At the same time key informant interviews were carried out to investigate specific issues related to the operating environment, particularly legal and technical. This pilot design note was synthesised from all this information. We approach the question of data portability by taking a clearly defined concrete challenge faced by aid organisations (deduplication in South Sudan and referrals in Ukraine), and addressing it through an approach which improves accessibility and participation (data stewardship). Once this approach has been proven to work in pilot, it should form a solid foundation for data portability, since there will be a) the technical basis to move data between organisations, b) participatory mechanisms to ensure that the aid recipients’ interests are taken into account, and c) greater understanding among aid recipients (and organisations) about their interests regarding how their data is used.

Проєктний звіт для мережі CCD 2023. Підготував: Пол Курріон. Після дослідження, проведеного CCD у 2022 році, для розробки процесу проектування було залучено консультанта. Процес розпочався з окремих вебінарів, проведених для членів CCD у Південному Судані та Україні, після чого відбулися сесії запитань та відповідей. Після вебінарів було проведено серію дизайнерських сесій дистанційно з кожною країною за участю групи співробітників, запропонованих членами CCD. У той же час були проведені інтерв'ю з ключовими інформантами для вивчення конкретних питань, пов'язаних з операційним середовищем, зокрема юридичних і технічних. З усієї цієї інформації була синтезована ця записка про пілотне проектування. Ми підходимо до питання переносимості даних, беручи до уваги чітко визначену конкретну проблему, з якою стикаються гуманітарні організації (дедуплікація в Південному Судані та перенаправлення в Україні), і вирішуючи її за допомогою підходу, який покращує доступність та участь (управління даними). Після того, як буде доведено, що цей підхід працює в пілотному проекті, він повинен сформувати міцну основу для перенесення даних, оскільки існуватиме: а) технічна основа для переміщення даних між організаціями, б) механізми участі для забезпечення врахування інтересів отримувачів допомоги, і в) краще розуміння між отримувачами допомоги (та організаціями) щодо їхніх інтересів щодо того, як використовуються їхні дані.

CCD / World Vision International 2023. Author, Paul Currion. Following research carried out by CCD in 2022, a consultant was engaged to develop the design process. The process began with separate webinars delivered to CCD members in South Sudan and Ukraine, followed by Q&A sessions. Following the webinars, a series of design sessions were held remotely with each country, engaging with a group of staff proposed by CCD members. At the same time key informant interviews were carried out to investigate specific issues related to the operating environment, particularly legal and technical. This pilot design note was synthesised from all this information. We approach the question of data portability by taking a clearly defined concrete challenge faced by aid organisations (deduplication in South Sudan and referrals in Ukraine), and addressing it through an approach which improves accessibility and participation (data stewardship). Once this approach has been proven to work in pilot, it should form a solid foundation for data portability, since there will be a) the technical basis to move data between organisations, b) participatory mechanisms to ensure that the aid recipients’ interests are taken into account, and c) greater understanding among aid recipients (and organisations) about their interests regarding how their data is used.

CCD / World Vision International 2022. Author, Paul Currion. This desk review provides a landscape of the state of policy and technology with respect to data portability and digital identity in the humanitarian sector. It introduces key concepts and raises critical questions for the sector as it considers new approaches to beneficiary-centric digital identity based on the principle of data portability. This document is accompanied by a separate analytical report prepared by Paul Currion which builds on the desk review with a targeted commentary and tailored guidance meant for CCD Network members within the framework of its ECHO-supported project on data portability.

CCD / World Vision International 2022. Author Paul Currion. This report draws on a desk review of existing literature, a series of interviews with key experts, and the experience of the author. In it, we analyse the current situation, outline the risks that are involved in working in this new space, and present the members of the CCD Network with potential opportunities to engage with the issue of data portability as constructively as possible. In the last two to three years there has been major progress amongst the larger humanitarian actors in the development of policy guidance relating to data, particularly around data protection and the emerging approach of data responsibility. This guidance has made greater alignment at the global level possible around key issues such as data protection (at least between a certain set of actors). Meanwhile, outside the humanitarian sector, new socio-technological developments have emerged which create the possibility of fundamentally new architectures that might address long-standing coordination problems, specifically the challenge of data portability. In this report, we refer mainly to Data Stewardship and Self-Sovereign Identity as examples of these developments, but these two do not exhaust the design landscape.

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