electricsheepafrica/africa-hrp-projects-mdg

Madagascar: Response Plan projects

Publisher: OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-igo · Updated: 2026-03-30

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Abstract

Projects proposed, in progress, or completed as part of the annual Madagascar Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) or other Humanitarian Programme Cycle plans. The original data is available on https://hpc.tools

Important: some projects in Madagascar might be missing, and others might not apply specifically to Madagascar. See Caveats under the Additional information tab.

Each row in this dataset represents time-series observations. Temporal coverage is indicated by the startdate, enddate column(s). Geographic scope: MDG.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	Time-series observations
Rows (total)	150
Columns	13 (1 numeric, 10 categorical, 2 datetime)
Train split	120 rows
Test split	30 rows
Geographic scope	MDG
Publisher	OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)
HDX last updated	2026-03-30

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Variables

Geographic — locations (MDG).

Temporal — startdate, enddate.

Identifier / Metadata — name (Drought response: Construction de latrines et gestion des déchets et contrôles des vecteurs au niveau CSB, Drought response: Distribution de kits WASH pour les familles avec enfants MAS, Cyclone respone: Renforcement des dispositifs/mécanismes de préparation, atténuation et réponses aux crises dans le Sud-est), versioncode (FMDG24-CSS-217446-1, FMDG24-PRO-217406-1, FMDG24-PRO-217422-1), response_plan_code (FMDG24), esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-04).

Other — currentrequestedfunds (range 2780.0–11658760.0), objective (Appuyer la coordination des interventions dans les domaines de Sécurité Alimentaire et Moyens de Subsistance aux niveaux national et inter-régional pour mieux se préparer et répondre aux aléas/chocs, Renforcer les dispositifs/mécanismes de préparation, atténuation et réponses aux crises à travers la surveillance de la situation de vulnérabilité à l’insécurité alimentaire, Coordination régionale : renforcer le système d’information, et suivi des nappes), globalclusters (Food Security, Water Sanitation Hygiene, Health), organizations (United Nations Children's Fund, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), plans (Madagascar Grand Sud and Grand Sud-Est Flash Appeal 2024).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-hrp-projects-mdg")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
name	object	0.0%	Drought response: Construction de latrines et gestion des déchets et contrôles des vecteurs au niveau CSB, Drought response: Distribution de kits WASH pour les familles avec enfants MAS, Cyclone respone: Renforcement des dispositifs/mécanismes de préparation, atténuation et réponses aux crises dans le Sud-est
versioncode	object	0.0%	FMDG24-CSS-217446-1, FMDG24-PRO-217406-1, FMDG24-PRO-217422-1
currentrequestedfunds	int64	0.0%	2780.0 – 11658760.0 (mean 600399.2867)
objective	object	0.0%	Appuyer la coordination des interventions dans les domaines de Sécurité Alimentaire et Moyens de Subsistance aux niveaux national et inter-régional pour mieux se préparer et répondre aux aléas/chocs, Renforcer les dispositifs/mécanismes de préparation, atténuation et réponses aux crises à travers la surveillance de la situation de vulnérabilité à l’insécurité alimentaire, Coordination régionale : renforcer le système d’information, et suivi des nappes
startdate	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
enddate	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
globalclusters	object	0.0%	Food Security, Water Sanitation Hygiene, Health
locations	object	0.0%	MDG
organizations	object	0.0%	United Nations Children's Fund, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
plans	object	0.0%	Madagascar Grand Sud and Grand Sud-Est Flash Appeal 2024
response_plan_code	object	0.0%	FMDG24
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-04

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
currentrequestedfunds	2780.0	11658760.0	600399.2867	133797.5

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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. 1 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: partners. 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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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.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_hrp_projects_mdg,
  title     = {Madagascar: Response Plan projects},
  author    = {OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/hrp-projects-mdg},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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