Université catholique de Louvain

Published purpose

November 30, 2009 - The Complex Emergency Database (CE-DAT) was created in 2003 to provide access to reliable health indicators for humanitarian decision-making. The overall goal of the project is to reduce mortality, disease and suffering due to conflicts through the provision of key nutritional, health and mortality indicators for evidence-based decision-making. CE-DAT has four main objectives: i) provide key mortality, nutritional and health indicators for humanitarian decision-making; ii) promote the effectiveness of international policies on conflict prevention and response through evidence-based trend analyses and impact briefings; iii) strengthen the capacity of national and international field operators in reliable data collection and analysis; iv) improve standardization and help establish norms to enable the comparability of complex emergency data across time and space. The project aims to facilitate the exchange of survey data and results between organizations active in the field and the CE-DAT Team in order to improve timeliness of data reporting. It also pursues the objective to enhance usability of CE-DAT data for policy and program planning.