The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with severe overlapping and intersecting crises;conflict, mass displacement, and public health emergencies. This is occurring against a backdrop of shrinking humanitarian funding to meet these pressing needs. Today, 5.7 million people are internally displaced, and 27.7 million face food insecurity, leaving communities vulnerable and humanitarian actors struggling to respond effectively.
Despite the scale of need in Eastern DRC, reliable cross-sectoral data remains scarce. To date, this information gap has stymied opportunities for effective coordination and prioritisation among humanitarians. This has resulted in gaps in lifesaving services and inefficient use of limited resources. At present, without timely and actionable evidence, humanitarian interventions risk continuing to be fragmented and inefficient.
The project
By delivering public health credible data and analyses and prioritisation monthly orientations, this project will enable humanitarian actors to prioritise interventions in high-need areas, strengthen decision-making and planification, support resource mobilisation, and improve accountability and impact.
Expected impact
Specifically, this project aims to strengthen data-driven decision-making in Eastern DRC by supporting two critical mechanisms:
- Groupe de Travail sur l’Analyse des Crises et Qualité de la Réponse (GTACQ) - Working Group on Crisis Analysis and Quality of Response: Through four monthly rounds of crisis analysis, GTACQ will enable humanitarian actors to systematically identify and prioritise health zones where acute needs, access constraints, and low response coverage intersect. These analyses are translated into maps highlighting health zones classified as hotspots, supporting actors to clearly visualise priority areas and informing more targeted operational planning, advocacy, and resource allocation.
- Integrated Public Health Rapid Assessments (IPHRA): Two IPHRAs will generate rapid, integrated analysis of public health risks, potential excess mortality drivers, and essential service gaps. Findings will be synthesised into a detailed analytical report and a concise factsheet, enabling humanitarian actors to refine response strategies, validate or adjust priorities, and design life-saving interventions based on robust public health analysis
These efforts will generate actionable insights shared through provincial coordination platforms and cluster meetings, enabling humanitarian actors to target resources where they are needed most.
Project partners
The project is implemented in close collaboration with humanitarian partners operating in Eastern DRC and is built on shared analysis and data contributions.
The GTACQ functions as a partner-driven analytical mechanism, relying on data shared on a monthly basis by partners across sectors. Partners contribute information which directly feed into needs, access constraints, response coverage, and incidents indicators, which are consolidated and analysed through monthly crisis analysis rounds per province. This collective process supports shared prioritisation and coordinated decision-making at provincial and national levels. The results are then shared with contributing and non-contributing partners through the GTACQ meetings and published on the dedicated Reliefweb page.
IPHRAs are conducted in close collaboration with public health clusters and other operational actors, who are consulted to provide feedback on the assessment tools, targeted locations, and the clarity and usefulness of the results. Targeted areas are informed by a review of secondary data shared and published by humanitarian actors, combined with the results of IMPACT’s Acute Needs Analysis (ANA), which identifies areas at risk of excess mortality, and monthly GTACQ analyses.