Global Coordination Groups: OCHA Humanitarian Cluster Taxonomies

OCHA Digital Services provides this dataset of global coordination group names and definitions used within the international humanitarian cluster system. It contains standardized taxonomies and official translations available in CSV and Google Sheet formats. The records represent the authoritative controlled vocabulary for humanitarian response coordination as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Standardizing humanitarian reporting by mapping local group names to official global coordination group names
• Building multilingual humanitarian platforms using the official translations for cluster categories
• Integrating OCHA taxonomies into data pipelines via machine-readable APIs

Strengths

• Official OCHA controlled vocabulary
• Includes official translations for international use
• Available in machine-readable CSV and API formats

Limitations

• Unknown total record count
• Specific schema and column names are not documented in the source metadata

Provenance

Source

OCHA Digital Services

Collection Method

Curated official taxonomy

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026 according to source metadata.

Geography

Global