Terms of Use & Humanitarian Charter
Ethical guidelines, open data licensing terms, operational limitations, and permitted use cases for humanitarian intelligence.
1. Exclusive Informational & Humanitarian Purpose
All datasets, visual models, interactive dashboards, time-series projections, and exported aggregates published on the Ethiopia Migration & Displacement Observatory are compiled and presented exclusively for public humanitarian analysis, academic research, journalistic reporting, policy evaluation, and non-commercial monitoring.
This observatory is an independent open data synthesis initiative. The information presented herein does not constitute legal advice, formal asylum adjudication, or an official determination of international protection status for any individual or group. Humanitarian field conditions are dynamic; operational responders must verify critical localized figures directly with primary field agencies.
2. Agency Independence & Non-Affiliation
Data originates from authoritative humanitarian publishers—including the International Organization for Migration (IOM DTM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA HDX), and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).
This observatory is not operated, administered, or formally endorsed by the United Nations or the Government of Ethiopia. Designations employed and boundary lines shown do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever concerning the legal status of any territory, city, or area, or of its authorities.
3. Open Access & CC BY 4.0 Licensing
Unless otherwise specified, content, analytical synthesis, and visualizations produced by this observatory are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
You are free to share, copy, distribute, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, provided you provide appropriate attribution to the primary originating agency (e.g. IOM DTM or UNHCR) and this platform, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
4. Field Collection Constraints & Limitations
Displacement tracking in active conflict, drought-affected, and remote pastoral corridors is subject to significant access constraints, communication blackouts, and logistical bottlenecks. Figures reported reflect verified site assessments and key informant estimates at the time of evaluation (e.g., IOM DTM Round 37, August 2024).
Users should examine the temporal metadata, confidence tiers, and assessment round indicators attached to each observation record in the Data Explorer.
5. Individual Protection & Privacy Safeguards
Under humanitarian data responsibility principles, any attempt to de-anonymize, trace, or deductively re-identify individuals or small vulnerable cohorts (Statistical Disclosure Control threshold < 5) using published aggregate figures is strictly prohibited.
Downstream users are responsible for complying with the IOM Data Protection Principles and UNHCR Data Protection Policy.