...
Start: Enter the first date this metadata is relevant.
End: If the text for a report is being revised, enter the end date on the current narrative metadata and create a new narrative metadata for the revision. This allows for preservation of previous versions.
Content type: Common | country should be used for country reports. Common | country group should be used for regional reports.
Object ID: Enter the code of the country or country group.
Narrative metadata type: Choose the type of narrative metadata.
Text fields: The Text field supports rich text and has a toolbar with formatting options. Users can view and edit HTML by clicking the Source button. The Text field should be used for English narrative. The other text fields should be used for their corresponding translations.
Common > Narrative metadata
...
types
Displays the narrative metadata types that are available in the drop-down list when adding and editing narrative metadata.
From this page, administrators can:
Add a new narrative metadata type
Edit or delete an existing narrative metadata type
Common > Classified products
Shows a hierarchical view of the individual product data that have been entered into the system. It displays the more than 5,600 classified products that are currently available in the system, along with their corresponding higher-level categories that contain one or more products within them. To view a description, various naming conventions and aliases for each individual classified product within the database, simply select it from the column labeled CPC V2 column.
The classified products page allows users to perform the following actions:
Add a new product
Edit the attributes of an existing product
Delete one or more products from the list of available products
Export one or more products data into the following standard file formats: .XLS, XLSX, .TSV, .ODS, .JSON, .YAML, and .HTML
Note: Standard free-text search functionality is also available from this page.
Common > Countries
Displays the current list of countries available in the system and allows users to:
Add a new country
Edit an existing country information/attributes
Delete one or more country records
Import country records from a file in various formats, including .XLS, .CSV, .TSV, .JSON, and YAML
Search country data using free-text search
Filter by country group
Common > Country groups
Create Displays the country groups that are used to categorize countries based on their geographic locations or non-geographic attributes. Geographically based country groups (labeled as Geographic groups) are continents , and sub-continental regions and non. Non-geographic country regions that can groups may be based on the level of economic development or on whether the country is landlocked or not.
The country groups function in the system allows system administrators to Administrators can create country groups to which one or more countries can later be added. Country groups can be nested inside one another to form a hierarchy. For example, the country group East Africa is contained within the group Africa, which in turn is contained within the top-level group World.
The grouping of countries into such hierarchical levels is used within the Geographic filters to simplify the process of selecting multiple countries at once by users within the FEWS NET Data Explorer application.
...
Add a new country group.
Edit an existing country group record.
Delete one or more existing group records.
Export all the country group records in the database.
Search and display the list of matching country group records using the open-text search functionality.
Common > Currencies
Provides the basic functionality used by administrators to add/introduce From this page, administrators can:
Add a new currency
...
Edit or delete an existing currency
...
Search existing currencies by a free text-style search
Common > Unit of measure conversions
Enable Provides administrators with the ability to set the equivalency between the various units of measures of the same category, so that one unit can be converted into the other using the a specified conversion factor set by the administrator. This allows system users to select a common unit of measure so that the results containing data from various sources, data from various sources that use different units of measures, can be shown by the measure to be displayed in a common unit of measure selected by the user specified.
From this page, a user with administrative permissions administrators can:
Add a record with a conversion factor between two units of measurements
Edit or delete an existing conversion factor data
Import a list of unit of measures measure conversions from a file
Search existing units unit of measures measure conversion factors by a free text style search
Filter the conversion factor records by the unit type such as Weight, Volume(e.g., weight or volume), or by source and destination units the urom unit and to unit measures.
Common > Units of measure
Manage all standard and non-standard units of measures measure used in the system to record all the detailed data available for all domains. Administrators can specify a quantity for various items tracked in the system and the list includes , including units of measures for weights, volumes, packaging of items, area, and more.
From this page, a user with administrative permissions administrators can:
Add a new unit of measure
Edit or delete an existing unit of measure record
Import a list of unit of measures from a file
Search existing units of measures by a free text style search
Filter the records by the unit type such as Weight or Volume, etc.(e.g., weight or volume)
IPC
IPC > Scenarios
Enter new data, edit existing data, or delete existing IPC scenarios that are applicable either for Acute Food Insecurity Classification (FIC), Acutely Food Insecure Population Estimates (FIPE) or Humanitarian Food Assistance domains. The domain to which the scenario applies is specified in the Purpose column when adding a new scenario.
The possible actions that can be performed from this page are:
Add a new scenario.
Edit an existing scenario.
Delete an existing scenario.
Search scenarios using a free text search.
Filter scenarios by the purpose they are used (IPC FIC or FIPE domain).
News articles
News articles > Sources
...
Using this page, administrators can perform the following actions:
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.
View list of features by applying.
Spatial > Geographic unit relationship types
...
Manage the relationship between Geographic units. For example, geographic units often experience name changes as in the case of (e.g., Horo Guduru, Ethiopia updating its name is updated to Horo Gudru Wallega, Ethiopia). In such a case, the relationship type of the two units would be Successor.
...
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 a free text criteria.
Filter the geographic unit relationship records by relationship type, unit type, or country.
...
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.
...
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 countryCountry.
Spatial > Geographic unit set versions
Manage geographic unit set versions. A version of a geographic unit set used in the past , can be a different version than is 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 it is they are the most current.
This page enables administrators to manage geographic unit set versions in the following ways:
...
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 existing in the system using free text search criteria
Filter and view livelihood zones by country or by zone type
...
Management of livelihood zone types in the system. Livelihood 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 this page, administrators can:
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
Spatial > Markets
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.
Using From this page, administrators are able to perform the following tasks:
...
can:
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
...
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:
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
Spatial > Seasons
Management of the list of seasons that exist in the system for each country. Administrators can access the standard system functions to add, edit, delete, import, export, search, and filter existing season data in the system.
From this page, administrators can:
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
Survey
Survey > Localities
Manage the list of localities data in the system by providing the standard system functions to add, edit, delete, import, export, search, and filter existing locality records in the system.A locality is a geographic location with additional information of population group, dominant livelihood zone, and description.. A locality is a geographic location with additional information on the population group, dominant livelihood zone, and a description.
From this page, administrators can:
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
Survey > Surveys
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:
Add a new survey data in 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
...
This page enables administrators to manage the document types under each domain as necessary and administrators can:
Add a new document type under the desired data domain
Edit and delete document type data as necessary
Search existing data using a free-text search criteria
Filter existing document type data using by the following attributes: data domain, contains forecasts, or calculate facts.
Warehouse > Indicator groups
...
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 using by data domain
Warehouse > Indicators
Indicators are the most important attributes of the numeric data stored in the system. For example, for data under in the crop domain, there are several indicators which accompany the imported data that is imported into the system: 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 this page are:
Adding 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.
...
A data source document license tells us specifies what rights the FEWS NET project, and other users if applicable, have to use the data in the source document.
...