Datasets:

electricsheepafrica
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africa-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-humanitarian-needs

annotations_creators:
  - no-annotation
language_creators:
  - found
language:
  - en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
size_categories:
  - n<1K
source_datasets:
  - original
task_categories:
  - tabular-regression
task_ids: []
tags:
  - africa
  - humanitarian
  - hdx
  - electric-sheep-africa
  - gender-and-age-disaggregated-data-gadd
  - humanitarian-needs-overview-hno
  - humanitarian-response-plan-hrp
  - hxl
  - cod
pretty_name: 'Democratic Republic of the Congo: Humanitarian Needs'
dataset_info:
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 12
    - name: test
      num_examples: 3

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Humanitarian Needs

Publisher: OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2026-02-13

Abstract

This dataset was compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) on behalf of the Humanitarian Country Team and partners. It provides the Humanitarian Country Team’s shared understanding of the crisis, including the most pressing humanitarian need and the estimated number of people who need assistance, and represents a consolidated evidence base and helps inform joint strategic response planning.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2026-02-13. Geographic scope: COD.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

Dataset Characteristics


Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	Tabular records
Rows (total)	16
Columns	6 (2 numeric, 4 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	12 rows
Test split	3 rows
Geographic scope	COD
Publisher	OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)
HDX last updated	2026-02-13

Variables

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-04).

Other — description (Final Caseload, Coordination et gestion des camps, Education), cluster (PRO, ALL, CCM), in_need (range 512680.0–14940727.0), targeted (range 450860.0–7313763.0).

Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-humanitarian-needs")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
`description`	object	0.0%	Final Caseload, Coordination et gestion des camps, Education
`cluster`	object	0.0%	PRO, ALL, CCM
`in_need`	float64	6.2%	512680.0 – 14940727.0 (mean 5269168.5333)
`targeted`	int64	0.0%	450860.0 – 7313763.0 (mean 1921250.125)
`esa_source`	object	0.0%	HDX
`esa_processed`	object	0.0%	2026-04-04

Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
`in_need`	512680.0	14940727.0	5269168.5333	4256957.0
`targeted`	450860.0	7313763.0	1921250.125	1090880.5

Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 5 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: category, population, affected, reached, info. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

Limitations

Data originates from OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) and has not been independently validated by ESA.
Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_democratic_republic_of_the_congo_humanitarian_needs,
  title     = {Democratic Republic of the Congo: Humanitarian Needs},
  author    = {OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-humanitarian-needs},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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