¶ Purpose
The Ops Learning Module in GO extracts key learnings and challenges from final reports of IFRC supported emergency operations: DREF and Emergency Appeals. The goal is to enhance emergency preparedness by systematically analyze, categorize and prioritize learnings from past operations. These insights are aimed to be accessible to the right people, at the right time, in the right place, and in the right format.
¶ What it does
The Ops Learning module in GO compiles and tags insights based on disaster type, sector, year, location and Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) components. This data is then prioritized by frequency and importance as identified by the National Societies, offering users digestible summaries of the most relevant findings.
¶ Prioritization Methodology
It involves a multi-step process that prioritize topics, and then within each topic it prioritize the most relevant learnings.
To prioritize the topics:
- For a specific query, we retrieve all associated learnings.
- Each learning has associated at least one PER component (i.e. topics).
- We count for the retrieved learnings, which are the most frequent PER components.
- We bring for the retrieved learnings, which are the prioritised learnings.
--> 4.1. If the NS, has gone through a prioritization stage of the PER process, we get the publicly available prioritized components for that country
--> 4.2. If the NS, hasn't gone through a prioritization stage of the PER process, we get a proxy of the prioritized components from the related region
--> 4.3. If the retrieved learnings are related to NS in more than one region, then we get a proxy of the prioritized components globally - We select the topics that appeared more frenquently and that were prioritized in step 4.
To prioritize the excerpts within a topic, we select the most recent excerpts .
¶ How to use it
The Ops Learning module in GO has as main interface a dashboard with filters to help users refine their search based on their interest areas. The dashboard displays the top three insights per category and provides deeper secondary summaries for specific sectors and components. It also links to the specific reports from which the information was retrieved, and the related emergency page in GO.
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