HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS INFORMATION DRIVES PREVENTION Operating under the understanding that “information drives prevention,” the organization has strengthened its efforts to build the practices, skills, and resources required to deliver timely, reliable, accessible information and analysis to inform prevention efforts. WHY NOW? This Information Management (IM) initiative came out of the need to be able to provide human rights data to feed into the integrated analysis called for in the Secretary-General’s Prevention Platform. In addition, the New Way of Working and the Sustainable Development and Sustaining Peace Agendas make human rights a key part of meeting their goals. In the OHCHR Management Plan (OMP) for 2018-2021 this has been addressed through a “Shift” to prevention. To ensure human rights data and analysis are part of the solution, the Office needs to be able to engage in the integrated analysis on an equal footing with UN partners. WHAT IS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT? We define IM as the systematic practice of identifying, collecting, protecting, processing, analysing and sharing data, information and knowledge for evidence-based decision-making. It is an information lifecycle that provides the ingredients for analysis. HOW DID WE MEET THE NEED? The Emergency Response Section (ERS) has been moving to meet the data needs in the prevention space as this represents a transformation in how UN Human Rights engages and leverages information. In March, the Section was re-structured due to the expansion of its focus on IM and the organization-wide support that these IM services offer. The ERS is driving the creation and establishment of the Information Management function in the organization. The new Information Management and Data Analytics (IMDA) Unit developed a field operations IM Strategy that serves as the road map for the development of sustainable IM structures in support of human rights work in the field. This Strategy envisions a range of profiles and expertise required to set in place systems and practices for early warning, data aggregation, data cleaning, secure data collection, media monitoring, open source intelligence, geo-spatial analysis, mapping, satellite imagery analysis and visualization. The Strategy is built around delivering services, tools and people. Targeting resources to support field presences leads to more actionable data and information; enabling UN Human Rights to provide the situational awareness required to deliver the timely, evidence-based, strategic and operational decisions that the UN system requires. The team has developed partnerships to leverage powerful tools to support media monitoring and structured secondary data analysis. The services are Map of the network of detention facilities by de facto authorities in Yemen for the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen. © OHCHR delivered through the IMDA Unit and a service catalogue to support field presences, investigative bodies, peacekeeping components and risk analysis at headquarters. Examples of services produced in 2019 include data visualization, establishment of information flows, leveraging information and data to inform decisions, data management and analysis, GIS/mapping, media monitoring tools, satellite imagery, etc. UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2019 37