Humanitarian Response
Register, assess, distribute, and follow up, offline-first, from day one of a crisis.
The Challenge
Humanitarian teams must make life-or-death decisions fast, often with fragmented information from the field.
Working without connectivity
Responders often operate where networks are down or absent.
Coordinating many partners
Multiple agencies must work from shared, consistent processes.
Rapidly onboarding new staff
Surge teams and volunteers need guided tools from day one.
Every workflow a responder needs, in one app
- Households, household members, WASH, protection, and emergency shelter side by side
- Open a full caseload on the phone, with no connection required
- See who is registered, with age and gender, before you go out
Find the right person, then check the record
- Search hundreds of registered people by name as you type
- Confirm gender, age, and relation to the head of household
- Move straight from the record into the follow-up form
Capture the shelter follow-up in a few taps
- Ask the same questions on response, supplies, and vulnerable groups at every site
- Finish the form offline, then sync when a connection returns
- Submissions land in CommCare HQ ready to report on
Example Dashboard Integration
Track enrollment and payment readiness across every area
- See total enrollments and the daily rate as the response scales
- Compare enrollment against target for every area on one chart
- Follow bank validation status so payment problems surface early
Crisis-response programs built on CommCare
From global humanitarian platforms to country-specific cash transfer rollouts, here’s what teams have shipped on CommCare.
Prosper Global: Monitoring and evaluation unified across 40+ countries
Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps) replaced 7 to 8 disconnected data tools per program with one CommCare platform, giving 5,400+ team members a single source of truth across 40+ countries.
GiveDirectly: Cash transfer launches, from weeks to days
GiveDirectly migrated seven country programs to CommCare in one global rollout, cutting project launch times from weeks to days.
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Hagadera refugee camp: a purpose-built electronic medical record for chronic disease care
A CommCare electronic medical record built for non-communicable disease care in Kenya’s Hagadera camp scheduled follow-up visits in 99.6% of records, versus 14.7% in generic electronic medical records.
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International Rescue Committee: from fragmented Excel tools to one global platform
IRC consolidated its global program data on CommCare Enterprise, replacing scattered spreadsheets with a single platform across 40+ countries.
See the spotlightTrusted by the organizations responding worldwide
From global international nongovernmental organizations and UN agencies to local implementers, CommCare runs across the humanitarian sector.
Rapid crisis response, across every use case.
Use the power of CommCare to run humanitarian response programs end to end, across every use case.
One platform, every workflow.
From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your humanitarian response program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.
- No-code workflows for frontline teams
- Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
- Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting