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.
CommCare for Humanitarian Response Programs
Register people fast, even offline
- Capture households, family size, and vulnerability flags in the field
- Work fully offline and sync to HQ when connectivity returns
- Deploy proven registration templates across country offices
Get aid to the right people, and log it
- Verify beneficiaries before each distribution to prevent duplication
- Record exactly what was handed out, item by item
- Capture cash, vouchers, and casework on the same offline app
One platform across countries and partners
- Run the same governed app across every country office and partner
- Push shared form versions and standardized indicators centrally
- Let country teams configure locally without forking the platform
Live situational data for every stakeholder
- See people reached, active sites, and coverage gaps on one dashboard
- Break results down by location, sector, and partner
- Feed cluster and donor reports live over OData
Want to see how this would work for your humanitarian response?
Talk to our teamCrisis-response programs built on CommCare
From global humanitarian platforms to country-specific cash transfer rollouts, here’s what teams have shipped on CommCare.
International Rescue Committee: From fragmented Excel tools to one global humanitarian platform
IRC consolidated its global program data on CommCare Enterprise, replacing scattered spreadsheets with a single platform for malnutrition treatment, legal advice, cash distribution, and dozens of other crisis-response workflows 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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Prosper Global: a digital ecosystem for real-time monitoring and evaluation at scale
Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps) uses CommCare for case management across its humanitarian programs, tracking each beneficiary individually and surfacing impact in real time.
Listen to the episodeTrusted 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