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Manage the list of journals where articles produced by FEWS NET-funded projects are published.

The possible actions that can be performed from this page are:

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Manage the list of FEWS-monitored organizations/operators that provide humanitarian assistance.

The possible actions that can be performed from this page are:

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Manage the multi-level administrative units existing in a specific country. From this page, administrators can perform the following actions

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new administrative unit in a country under a specified Layer.

  • Edit one of more existing administrative units.

  • Delete one of more existing administrative units.

  • Import administrative units from a file containing administrative unit data.

  • Export the current list of administrative units into a file.

  • Search the current list of administrative units by using a free text search criteria.

  • Filter by unit type (unit level) and country

  • View a map of selected administrative units.

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Manage Geographic features within a Layer. A feature is defined as a single entry among several records available within a Layer of a Geographic unit. For example, among a Water Bodies Layer, a single Feature can be a record for the Nile river. Features are hosted within a Layer, and Geographic Units can contain one or more Layers.

Using The actions that can be performed from this page , administrators can perform the following actionsare:

  • Add a new feature record.

  • Edit or Delete existing geographic features.

  • Import features from a file.

  • Export features into a file.

  • Search features using the free text search feature.

  • Filter by unit type and country.

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For example, Admin 2 is contained within Admin 1 and Admin 0, or an Admin 1 geographic unit can be aggregated into Admin 0.

This page allows administrators to perform the following tasks on Geographic Unit relationship typesThe actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new Geographic unit relationship type.

  • Edit existing Geographic unit relationship types.

  • Delete existing Geographic unit relationship types.

  • Search existing Geographic unit relationship types using a free-text search criteria

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Manage the relationship between Geographic units. For example, geographic units often experience name changes (e.g., Horo Guduru, Ethiopia is updated to Horo Gudru Wallega, Ethiopia). In such a case, the relationship type of the two units would be Successor.

From this page, administrators can perform the following tasks:

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new Geographic unit relationship.

  • Edit an existing Geographic unit relationship.

  • Delete an existing Geographic unit relationship

  • Import geographic unit relationships from a file.

  • Export geographic unit relationships into a file.

  • Search geographic unit relationships using free text criteria.

  • Filter the geographic unit relationship records by relationship type, unit type, or country.

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Manage collections of geographic units for a specific country that have been obtained from a particular data source. For example, Ethiopia FEWS NET Admin Boundaries are a geographic unit set containing admin boundaries for Ethiopia, sourced from FEWS NET.

This page allows administrators to perform the following data management functionsThe actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new geographic unit set.

  • Modify an existing geographic unit set.

  • Delete an existing geographic unit set.

  • Filter and view existing geographic unit set data by Country.

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Manage geographic unit set versions. A version of a geographic unit set used in the past can be different from the one used at present. As admin boundaries continue to change/evolve, new versions continuously become available. Geographic unit set versions have a start and end date to indicate their validity period. The most recent geographic unit sets have an empty end date, indicating that they are the most current.This page enables administrators to manage geographic unit set versions in the following ways

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new geographic unit set version.

  • Edit an existing geographic unit set version.

  • Delete an existing geographic unit set version.

  • View and manage layer details of the geographic unit set version.

  • Search geographic unit set version records using free text search.

  • Filter geographic unit set version records by country or unit type.

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Geographic unit types specify the categories for geographic units into different types such as the administrative level (Admin 0, Admin 1, …), border point, or market.

Administrators can manage the geographic unit types data by performing the following activities using this pageThe actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new geographic unit type

  • Edit or delete existing geographic unit type records

  • Search geographic unit type records using free text search

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Manage geographic units in the system. A geographic unit contains information about a geographic location such as a country or an admin unit along with its geographic feature that enables it to be presented on a map.

From The actions that can be performed from this page , the administrator is able toare:

  • Add a new geographic unit to the system

  • Edit or delete existing geographic units in the system

  • Import one or more geographic units into the system from file

  • Export the existing geographic units into a file

  • Search and view geographic units existing in the system using free text search

  • Filter and view geographic units by country or unit type

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Manage livelihood zones in the system. Livelihood zones are geographic units in a country that are characterized by a single dominant livelihood activity. Using

The actions that can be performed from this page , administrators are able to:

  • Add a new livelihood zone

  • Edit or delete existing livelihood data

  • Import one or more livelihood zones into the system from a file

  • Export the existing livelihood zones into a file

  • Search and view existing livelihood zones using free text search criteria

  • Filter and view livelihood zones by country or by zone type

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Management of livelihood zone types in the system. The livelihood zone types list contains the values used to specify the dominant livelihood activity in a Livelihood zone. This is the page where administrators can add, edit, delete, search and display existing livelihood zone types data in the system.

From The actions that can be performed from this page , administrators canare:

  • Add a new livelihood zone type

  • Edit or delete existing livelihood zone types

  • Search and view existing livelihood zone types using free text search criteria

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Manage the list of Markets that are available in the system along with related market attributes. The market record also contains a geographic reference that allows the market location to be shown on a map.

From The actions that can be performed from this page , administrators canare:

  • Add a new market in a country

  • Edit or delete existing market data in the system

  • Import market records from a file

  • Export market records into a file

  • Search and view market data in the system by using a free text search criteria

  • Filter and view existing market data in the system by specifying a country

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Management of seasonal crop activity dates (e.g., harvest start day and harvest end day) for a given season, data source document, and product. Administrators can add, edit, delete, search, and filter seasonal crop activities in the system.

From this page, administrators can:

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add new seasonal crop activities

  • Edit or delete existing seasonal crop activities in the system

  • Search and view seasonal crop activities by using a free text search criteria

  • Filter and view existing seasonal crop activities by product or country

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Management of the list of seasons that exist in the system for each country.

From The actions that can be performed from this page , administrators canare:

  • Add a new season

  • Edit or delete existing seasons in the system

  • Import seasons from a file

  • Export season records into a file

  • Search and view seasons by using a free text search criteria

  • Filter and view existing seasons by purpose or country

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Manage the list of localities data in the system. A locality is a geographic location with additional information on the population group, dominant livelihood zone, and a description.

From The actions that can be performed from this page , administrators canare:

  • Add a new locality

  • Edit or delete existing localities in the system

  • Search and view localities by using a free text search criteria

  • Filter and view existing localities by country

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Displays the list and allows for management of survey records in countries that are the original sources for the various data source organizations that provide data to FEWS NET. This page allows administrators to perform the following tasks

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add new survey data into the system

  • Edit or delete existing survey data in the system

  • Import surveys from a file

  • Export surveys in the system into a file

  • Search and view survey records using a free text search criteria

  • Filter and view survey records by data domain

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There are three data usage policies in the system. Others may have to be added in the future as needed. This page allows administrators to perform the following action in the system

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • View existing data usage policies in the system

  • Add a new data usage policy

  • Modify the descriptions of an existing data usage policy

  • Delete one or more data usage policy in the system

  • Search data usage policies in the system

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Manage the list of data usage policy reasons in the system. Data usage policy reasons are attached to data source documents as an explanation about why a specific data usage policy has been assigned to the data source document.

From The actions that can be performed from this page , administrators are able to the following actions:

  • Add a new data usage policy reason

  • Edit existing data usage policy reason description

  • Delete one or more data usage policy reason description

  • Search data policy reason records using a free text search criteria

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In addition to the data domain, the system further classifies the data in the database by using document types. The document type indicates the last detail the system needs when data is imported into the database. For instance, under the population domain, the data is further divided into either a census data or a population estimate data.This page enables administrators to manage the document types under each domain as necessary and administrators can

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new document type under the desired data domain

  • Edit and delete document type data

  • Search existing data using a free-text search criteria

  • Filter existing document type data by the following attributes: data domain, contains forecasts, or calculate facts.

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Indicator groups provide a way of categorizing one or more indicators into a single category and indicator groups are used in reporting or summarizing information in the system. Indicator groups are specified under a data domain and indicators are classified into belonging to an indicator group.This page allows administrators to manage a list of indicator groups by enabling them to

The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new indicator group to a data domain

  • Edit or delete existing indicator group

  • Search existing indicator group data using a free-text search criteria

  • Filter existing indicator group data by data domain

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Indicators are the most important attributes of the numeric data stored in the system. For example, for data in the crop domain, several indicators accompany the imported data: the area planted, area harvested, quantity produced, and yield.

Administrators use this page to manage the current list of indicators for each domain. The specific functionalities of The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new indicator in a data domain, by specifying the indicator group and other attributes.

  • Edit or delete an existing indicator data in the system

  • Search existing indicator data using a free-text search criteria

  • Filter existing indicator data using the following indicator attributes: data domain, has confidence interval, has high value, or default indicator.

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A data source document license specifies what rights the FEWS NET project, and other users if applicable, have to use the data in the source document.

Administrators use this page to manage the current list of usage licenses. The specific functionalities of The actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new license

  • Edit or delete an existing license

  • Search existing licenses using a free-text search criteria

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Manage the current list of data source documents in the system. One or more data source documents with a specified data usage policy and document type are created for each data source organization that provides data to FEWS NET.

The functionalities available actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new data source document to the system

  • Import new records of data source document from a file

  • Edit or delete an existing data source document

  • Export the current list of data source document into a file

  • Search existing data source document using a free-text search criteria

  • Filter existing data source organization by data usage polity, data domain, country, or web service.

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Manage the current list of data source organizations in the system. Data source organizations are organizations in different countries that provide data for a specific document type in a domain for a country.

The functionalities available actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new data source organization to the system

  • Import new records of data source organizations from a file

  • Edit or delete an existing data source organization record

  • Export the current list of data source organizations into a file

  • Search existing data source organization using a free-text search criteria

  • Filter existing data source organization by country

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Manage the list of web services used to import data into FDW.

The functionalities available actions that can be performed from this page are:

  • Add a new web service

  • Edit or delete an existing web service record

  • Search existing web services using a free-text search criteria

  • Filter existing web services by name