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The following content is designed to help Mercy Corps staff better understand and implement responsible data practices. It brings several existing Mercy Corps policies and guidance documents together with some simple tutorials and links to other resources. The information can be taken all together as a comprehensive guidebook, or each section can be used as a standalone guide to a particular topic. The following topics are presented:
- Sensitive data - defines what sensitive data is and provides guidance for its collection and use.
- Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) - provides details regarding PIAs and the assessment templates required by Mercy Corps' Responsible Data policy.
- File sharing - presents an overview of best practices using G Suite at Mercy Corps and a brief tutorial.
- Deidentification - contains an overview of de-identification - including anonymization and pseudonymization - and an example of one way to deidentify a dataset using spreadsheet software.
- Encryption - provides a brief overview of encryption and provides an example of one way to encrypt a file using software available within Mercy Corps.
While the guide is primarily intended for Mercy Corps staff, and is designed to accompany the Responsible Data Toolkit, we are releasing it under open license so that it may benefit partners, peer-organizations, and others in need of example policies, templates, and instructions for implementing responsible data practices.
The content provided in this guide is all part of good data management practices and the larger data life cycle, or the overall activities for individual data management as part of a program or response. The following resources are excellent places to start for a more complete understanding of managing your data responsibly. We have used or cited portions of all of these resources throughout the Guide and refer to specific chapters or sections that are most pertinent to a specific topic.
- The Cash Learning Partnership's Data Responsibility Toolkit is designed for cash and voucher practitioners specifically, but is a gold standard in guidance for responsible data. The Toolkit is available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish.
- The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network's Data Starter Kit for Humanitarian Field Staff provides a series of data tip sheets for understanding various aspects of good data management and protection practices.
- The International Committee of the Red Cross' Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action is a detailed guide to almost every aspect of humanitarian data.
- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Data Playbook is an excellent resource of exercises, session plans, checklists, and other materials to help you organize conversations and activities with your team to develop responsible data activities.
- The Humanitarian Data Centre's online tutorial for conducting a disclosure risk assessment is a very specific, technical resource, but one that is indispensable for truly reducing the risk of data being used to identify individuals.
- The Engine Room's Handbook of the Modern Development Specialist is a good overview of data in the context of international development activities.
This repository is maintained by the Data Protection & Privacy team at Mercy Corps and is part of work to expand the Responsible Data Toolkit. You can submit updates or additions to this material via a Github pull request (read about pull requests here) or by contacting us at dataprotection@mercycorp.org.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
