This paper reviews real-time monitoring (RTM), how it fits into a humanitarian information system, how systems quickly adjusted toward RTM in 2020, and provides a series of case studies of RTM systems, their objectives, and their outcomes.
Christopher Newton
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Chris Newton is a Visiting Fellow at the Feinstein Center and currently works for the International Crisis Group as a senior analyst in early warning.
He worked for a range of humanitarian organisations prior, including the World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organisation, and REACH. This included extensive work in South Sudan, in addition to Nigeria, Afghanistan, and other countries.
His research focuses on early warning, food security, famine, and conflict, particularly the use of starvation as a weapon of war. He holds a Master of Science in Nutrition from the Friedman School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame.
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This project includes studies on early warning and assessment of crises, specifically looking at real-time monitoring, anticipatory action, political constraints, data collection and analysis, and the validity of indicators.
This study seeks to understand the availability and quality of information, and the external influences on data collection and analysis for the classification of food emergencies.