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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Humanitarian Programme Cycle Identifiers (XM-OCHA)

Description

OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) is the part of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies.

OCHA assigns it's own organisation identifiers to parties involved in funding or delivery of humanitarian work, which are used in UN OCHA data, and may be used by some third-parties.

Previously OCHA used identifiers from its Financial Tracking System (FTS) list. It has now changed and uses identifiers from its Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) list.

Organisations may have different identifiers on the two lists. For example, if an organisation has a legacy code of XM-OCHA-FTS3524 then it does NOT automatically have a new code of XM-OCHA-HPC3524. The deprecated FTS identifier list is no longer available online.

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A list of identifiers is available via an API, which provides data in JSON or XML formats.

Find and use identifiers

A list of identifiers is available in XML and JSON form from the UN OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle API [1] at 'https://api.hpc.tools/v1/public/organization'

The identifier, following the UNOCHA pattern of usage, is made up of the id field from the XML or JSON, prefixed with 'HPC' to give identifiers of the form:

> 'XM-OCHA-HPC8908

[1]: https://api.hpc.tools/docs/v1/

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How to use

The code for this list is XM-OCHA.

When you have located the organization you wish to identify in this list, you should either:

Enter it in an identifier database field prefixed with XM-OCHA.

XM-OCHA-[ IDENTIFIER ]

Examples

                
XM-OCHA-HPC8597
                
XM-OCHA-HPC9324

Alternatively, use it within a two-part identifier, with XM-OCHA as the 'scheme', and the identifier you have located as the 'identifier' field.

  • Coverage:

  • Sectors: humanitarian_relief

  • List Type: local

  • Former list codes: XM-OCHA-FTS

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