Data Responsibility and Safe Information Management

This chapter is part of the GPC Protection Field Coordination Toolkit. The Toolkit can be used by all Protection Clusters and cluster-like mechanisms – such as Protection Sectors and Protection Working Groups – working within the cluster system framework. This guidance is also available to partners and other organisations who want to understand the principles and practices of protection coordination.

This Chapter contains:

• Core concepts and principles of Information Management (IM) and data safeguarding.
• Data responsibility in humanitarian action.
• Role of Protection Clusters in data management and sharing.
• Tools and resources for safe and effective data handling.