Brigham and Women's Hospital

A part of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Peace and Human Rights Data Program (the Program) conducts research and capacity building and uses technologies to enable empirical and mixed research methods in the context of mass violence and disasters. As part of its work, the Program maintains and develops the digital data collection platform KoBoToolbox that is meant to help enable rigorous quantitative research in complex environments. The research produced through the Program seeks to ensure that the needs of survivors of mass violence and disasters are recognized and acted on by governments, UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations.

The grant supports two strands of work being carried out by the Program on Vulnerable Populations. First, research to advance empirical, policy-relevant information exploring how communities affected by widespread conflict perceive issues related to security, justice, and peace. Second, the enhancement and expansion of open source digital data collection tools designed to aid human rights and humanitarian organizations conducting population-based surveys in complex environments.

In support of general operations.