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David Amitai
May 27, 2026, 5:34:24 AM (10 days ago) May 27
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We are writing to invite you to contribute to a global discovery survey conducted as part of the Humanitarian Archives Emergency (www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk) project led by the Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute with ELRHA (www.elrha.org).
WHY THIS MATTERS: Across the humanitarian sector, significant bodies of knowledge are under threat. Funding cuts are closing organisations. Armed conflict is destroying offices and storage sites. Cloud subscriptions are lapsing. The result is that operational records, beneficiary data, protection documentation, evaluations, and institutional memory are being lost, often silently and irreversibly.
This loss is not evenly distributed. Collections held by local and national organisations, particularly in fragile and low-income settings, face the greatest risk and receive the least protection.
The HAE project is building an evidence base on the scale, nature, and consequences of archival risk in the sector. As part of this work, we, at Key Aid Consulting /www.keyaidconsulting.com/), Institute of Development Studies (www.ids.ac.uk/about/) and the Archive and Digital Media Lab (www.archiveslab.org) are conducting a discovery survey to identify archives, records, and datasets that are not captured in existing global repositories or formal mapping initiatives.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE: The survey takes approximately 5 minutes to complete. You will be asked to describe the collection, its status, and any risks it faces. A consent question allows you to indicate whether your entry can be included in a public registry or should remain internal to the research team. Sensitive collections can be reported confidentially, and a follow-up contact option is available to protect collections or custodians at risk.
Take the survey:
https://odk.keyaidconsulting.com/f/gz3rQ5mbaVlxzSg94BfFleMIaoHznZC?st=avF73NDzmC3Th$t9qlJgaEEi3!ryD7qCOWnLKPXbjZhmvpcNyZAjqv1VTj6TZaq7
If you know of relevant collections but are not the right person to
complete the survey, please forward this message to colleagues who may
be. Every submission, however partial, helps build a more complete
picture.
Thank you for your support.
WHY THIS MATTERS: Across the humanitarian sector, significant bodies of knowledge are under threat. Funding cuts are closing organisations. Armed conflict is destroying offices and storage sites. Cloud subscriptions are lapsing. The result is that operational records, beneficiary data, protection documentation, evaluations, and institutional memory are being lost, often silently and irreversibly.
This loss is not evenly distributed. Collections held by local and national organisations, particularly in fragile and low-income settings, face the greatest risk and receive the least protection.
The HAE project is building an evidence base on the scale, nature, and consequences of archival risk in the sector. As part of this work, we, at Key Aid Consulting /www.keyaidconsulting.com/), Institute of Development Studies (www.ids.ac.uk/about/) and the Archive and Digital Media Lab (www.archiveslab.org) are conducting a discovery survey to identify archives, records, and datasets that are not captured in existing global repositories or formal mapping initiatives.
HOW TO CONTRIBUTE: The survey takes approximately 5 minutes to complete. You will be asked to describe the collection, its status, and any risks it faces. A consent question allows you to indicate whether your entry can be included in a public registry or should remain internal to the research team. Sensitive collections can be reported confidentially, and a follow-up contact option is available to protect collections or custodians at risk.
Take the survey:
https://odk.keyaidconsulting.com/f/gz3rQ5mbaVlxzSg94BfFleMIaoHznZC?st=avF73NDzmC3Th$t9qlJgaEEi3!ryD7qCOWnLKPXbjZhmvpcNyZAjqv1VTj6TZaq7
If you know of relevant collections but are not the right person to
complete the survey, please forward this message to colleagues who may
be. Every submission, however partial, helps build a more complete
picture.
Thank you for your support.
_________________________
Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar
Assistant Professor, Archival Information & Digital Humanities
Media Studies Department, University of Amsterdam
Founding Director, Archives & Digital Media Lab
Co-Chair, Palestine Archives Task Force, International Council on Archives
Email: dire...@archiveslab.org
Recent Publication: J.J. Ghaddar (2025) Palestine as Provenance: Archiving against Genocide
in Gaza & Jabal Amil (South Lebanon), Archival Science [open source]
in Gaza & Jabal Amil (South Lebanon), Archival Science [open source]
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