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A case management tool for the humanitarian sector - keep track of beneficiaries and services.

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Core

Core is a set of components that attempt to solve the problem of

  • data collection
  • beneficiary identity
  • case management
  • reporting

for the humanitarian sector.

Humanitarian organizations offer services to beneficiaries, usually in multiple countries. These services might be the

  • delivery of goods
  • delivery of services, such as education, legal help, medical help, ...

Humanitarian organizations need to collect data about the recipients of those services to

  • Offer services to those beneficiaries
  • Track the status of the services
  • Evaluate the admissibility of a beneficiary to these services
  • Accountability to the donors

Also, humanitarian organizations often need to collect other types of data to

  • Evaluate where aid efforts should be focused
  • Evaluate the status of a population

Humanitarian organizations usually use something like ODK or KOBO to perform this task. While ODK/Kobo and such tools perform well for offline data collection, The Norwegian Refugee Council found some shortcomings with these tools such as

  • Lacks the concept of identity or cases
  • Lacks OIDC/OAuth features
  • Lack of centralized identity management
  • Lack of centralized permission management
  • Lack of case management features
  • Beneficiaries are not allowed to log in

Applications

Name Description
core-frontend Frontend application that allows managing forms and records
core-login-frontend Server Application that allows login and identity provider federation
core-forms-api API Server for managing forms and records
core-authnz-api API Server for managing OAuth clients, organizations and identity federation
core-authnz-frontend Frontend application to manage authorization/authentication
core-authnz-bouncer Application that verifies, authenticates and authorizes requests

Dependencies

Name Description
ory/hydra OIDC Wrapper for the login-frontend. Acts as the Identity Provider for all apps
spicedb Stores authorization entries and evaluates if actions are authorized or not