HDX HAPI: Standardized Humanitarian Organization Data with HXL Tags

Offering standardized humanitarian organization data sourced from the HDX Humanitarian API (HAPI) as of March 2026. It contains operational partner information formatted with Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) tags to enable interoperability across humanitarian response systems.

Use Cases

• Mapping operational partners using HXL-tagged organization identifiers
• Automating humanitarian decision-making workflows via standardized HAPI indicators
• Analyzing humanitarian coordination structures through organization-level metadata

Strengths

• Standardized via HDX Humanitarian API (HAPI) for cross-source interoperability
• Includes HXL tags for automated humanitarian data processing
• Transparent quality reporting that includes rows with warnings and errors for auditability

Limitations

• Contains unusable records marked with errors that must be filtered before analysis
• Specific record counts and column schemas are not detailed in the primary metadata

Provenance

Source

HDX Humanitarian API (HAPI)

Collection Method

Aggregated from multiple humanitarian sources via standardized API protocols

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Global humanitarian contexts