The Data Playbook is ready

Improve your team’s data knowledge and skills

Data is a team sport

Together with 100s of Red Cross Red Crescent staff, volunteers, and partners, we’ve compiled over 120 short exercises, games, scenarios and handouts to help you and your teams discuss, learn, and share all aspects of the data lifecycle.

The Data playbook is like a Swiss knife for any organisation that wants to strengthen its data capacity. It contains versatile and comprehensive building blocks to support your organisation’s data journey.

Bertrand RUKUNDO

Data Playbook contributor, Burundi Red Cross volunteer and IFRC former staff

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  • 120 remixable exercises, games, scenarios, checklists and slides
  • Sessions designed for 30 minutes to 1 hour team discussions & activities
  • PDF and editable formats
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How to start?

There are multiple ways to use the playbook. You can use specific exercises or modules or you can review example workshop templates. We highly recommend you modify the content to suit your needs.

5 steps to build your learning session

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Modify and add your own examples
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The Data Playbook content

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Editor’s note
Facilitator's Tips
Table of Contents
Credits
Module 1 - Understanding how Data Matters
Module 2 - Nurturing a Data Culture
Module 3 - Strengthening Data Teams and Projects
Module 4 - Getting the Data We Need
Module 5 - Making Data Useful, Useable, and Shareable
Module 6 - Understanding and Analyzing Data
Module 7 - Responsible Data Practices and Data Protection
Module 8 - Presenting and Visualizing Data
Module 9 - Making Decisions with Data
Module 10 - Data science and Emerging Technologies
Curriculum Templates

(See more details on the Data Playbook on the Global Disaster Preparedness Center page)

It's a Team Sport

The Data Playbook has been designed to be easily translated and adapted to your context. Your feedback is essential to identify what has been used and how, and to enrich the Data Playbook content moving forward. Don’t forget to share your experience with us: [email protected] 

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Insights and Methodology

 

We are happy to share this 30-page Data Playbook Methodology Report, which provides insights and methodology, with reflection on the initial idea, pilot, beta, version 1, and the Data Playbook launch phases. We conclude with overall lessons that can be useful to everyone with similar goals.

 

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