» About CE-DAT
The Complex Emergency Database (CE-DAT) was created in 2003 in the context of the Standardized Monitoring and Assesment of Relief and Transitions (SMART) initiative to provide quick access to reliable data for humanitarian decision-making.
Today, CE-DAT is a global database on the human impact of conflicts and other complex humanitarian emergencies and serves as a unique and essential source of data for monitoring conflict-affected populations and for the production of trend analyses, impact briefings, and policy recommendations.
The objectives of CE-DAT are to:
- Provide key mortality, nutrition, and health indicators for rational humanitarian aid decision-making
- Promote the effectiveness of international policies on conflict prevention and response through evidence-based trend analyses and impact briefings
- Strengthen capacities of national and international field agencies in data collection
- Improve standardization and establish norms to enable the comparability of complex emergency data across time and space
CE-DAT Methods:
- Measuring the human impact: CE-DAT compiles available data on the health status of conflict-affected populations
- Specifiying the populations: the status of the population, whether IDP, resident, refugee, or returnee is included for each indicator
- Identifying the location: The data is broken down to the smallest administrative level boundary and is geo-referenced
- Providing methodologies: information is provided on how the data was collected, including sampling methods and survey designs
- Stating the sources: all data are referenced as to their original sources
