Who is Doing What
Choosing the right HXL hashtags and attributes to describe your data takes practice. In this video, we discuss a few of the HXL standard’s core hashtags and attributes and demonstrate how you can combine them to describe data about humanitarian actors and response activities.
Key Takeaways
Use the core HXL hashtag #org for all humanitarian actors.
#org is used for all organizations contributing to an emergency response including non-governmental organizations, governments, community-based organizations, donors, and UN agencies. #group is used to describe any collective entity that’s not considered part of the humanitarian response.
There are three core attributes for distinguishing an organization's role.
Humanitarians often need to be able to distinguish among the different roles organizations play in a response. With HXL, you can use three core attributes: +funder for donor organizations, +prog for programming organizations ((such as UN agencies or INGOs), and +impl for implementing partners. If none of these meets your needs, you are welcome to create new attributes (such as +privacy_auditor).
Use the #activity hashtag for programs, projects, and activities.
The #activity hashtag refers to all levels of humanitarian activities, in the general sense. That includes programs, projects, and activities. Use the attributes +programme, +project, and +activity to refine the meaning of #activity. If you are using different classification levels, you can create new attributes for them, such as +key_objective.