Work Packages
Work Package Overview (WP0)
WP0 provides an overview of all the work undertaken across the project, playing an integrative role between WP1-4 and offering intellectual, ethical, impact and organisational leadership for the team as a whole.
WP0 Team: Professor Vicki Squire, Professor Dallal Stevens, Dr Modesta Alozie and Stephanie Whitehead
Work Package One (WP1)
WP1 will undertake geospatial analysis of coverage and efficiency of datasets, focusing on data visualisation and spatial exclusions. It will investigate different issues around the coverage, granularity and interoperability of humanitarian datasets, as well as their efficacy in the distribution of humanitarian assistance. It will also examine the degree to which existing datasets from agencies active in northern Nigeria and South Sudan are related to decision-making involved in humanitarian work, as well as to spatially intersecting inequalities, saturation, access or exclusions in the coverage and analysis of the datasets.
This will be based on a twofold method:
a) definition of quality assessment criteria by contextualising and adapting geospatial data metrics (e.g. accuracy, completeness, interoperability etc.) and mapping the decision-making processes involved in humanitarian work together with our partners in IOM DTM
b) quantitative and qualitative assessment of the datasets by implementing the assessment criteria with open-source geospatial data analysis and visualisation software (QGIS and R studio).
WP1 Team: Professor Joao Porto de Albuquerque and Grant Tregonning.
Work Package Two (WP2)
Work Package 2 (WP2) will provide contextual analysis of data production and use, with a focus on local and operational dimensions.
The project's operational focus in WP2 will assess the impact of targeting on IDPs, including the qualitative assessment of the different data collection practices used, both in terms of their inclusiveness, representativeness and potential to reflect gender and spatial inequalities in the vulnerable populations and territories covered. The research will reflect not only on the data that DTM encapsulates, but also the forms of visualisation across each of the sites in question. An analysis of the data visualisations used in practice by humanitarian targeting will investigate how visual forms are related to the data assessment criteria of WP1, as well as how they communicate latent uncertainties and underlying data inequalities. Data and visual analysis will be undertaken in order to address questions about the epistemic and political dynamics underpinning processes of data production, as well as to develop a contextually-focused assessment of the use, efficacy and ethical issues arising from data-driven humanitarian assistance.
WP2 Team: Rob Trigwell and Dr Prithvi Hirani
Work Package Three (WP3)
Work Package Three will undertake a qualitative analysis of interviews with IDPs, humanitarian practitioners and local stakeholders in northern Nigeria. A total of 40 in-depth semi-structured interviews will be conducted with IDPs and 20 with practitioners and stakeholders. These will explore barriers to the effectiveness of data-based humanitarian targeting, particularly in situations of conflict and displacement where distrust of authorities is often rife. Ethical questions regarding who falls through the cracks are particularly sensitive and complex to assess in such contexts, hence in-depth qualitative interviews are most appropriate in ensuring care is taken in unearthing issues that can be highly controversial. A targeted snowball sampling method will be used to recruit IDPs as research participants, paying attention to intersecting vulnerability factors such as gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, and class. Qualitative data will be analysed thematically through an iterative manual process in the first instance, before being coded using NVivo software.
WP3 Team: Dr Olufunke Fayehun and Dr Olayinka Akanle
Work Package Four (WP4)
Work Package Four will undertake a qualitative analysis of interviews with IDPs, humanitarian practitioners and local stakeholders in South Sudan. A total of 40 in-depth semi-structured interviews will be conducted with IDPs in, and 20 with practitioners and stakeholders. These will explore barriers to the effectiveness of data-based humanitarian targeting, particularly in situations of conflict and displacement where distrust of authorities is often rife. Ethical questions regarding who falls through the cracks are particularly sensitive and complex to assess in such contexts, hence in-depth qualitative interviews are most appropriate in ensuring care is taken in unearthing issues that can be highly controversial. A targeted snowball sampling method will be used to recruit IDPs as research participants, paying attention to intersecting vulnerability factors such as gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, and class. Qualitative data will be analysed thematically through an iterative manual process in the first instance, before being coded using NVivo software.
WP4 Team: Dr Briony Jones, Dr Leben Moro and Kuyang Harriet Logo