OCHA Organization Types: Controlled Vocabulary with ReliefWeb Definitions
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Description
OCHA Digital Services maintains this controlled vocabulary of humanitarian organization types, updated as of March 2026. The data provides standardized categories and definitions sourced from ReliefWeb and the Grand Bargain framework. It is distributed in CSV and Google Sheet formats to support humanitarian data interoperability.
Use Cases
Standardizing organization type labels in humanitarian information systems using ReliefWeb definitions
Aligning internal datasets with the Grand Bargain reporting standards
Providing human-readable definitions for organization categories in data portals
Strengths
Uses official ReliefWeb and Grand Bargain definitions
Maintained by OCHA Digital Services for global humanitarian standards
Available in machine-readable CSV format
Limitations
Contains only classification categories, not a directory of specific organizations
Small scope focused strictly on taxonomy rather than operational data
Provenance
Source
OCHA Digital Services
Collection Method
Expert curation
Freshness
Last updated March 2026 according to source metadata.
Geography
Global
Licensed under CC-BY; users can also access this data via the ReliefWeb Taxonomy as a Service API.