{"id":1710,"date":"2019-04-15T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T10:48:16","slug":"off-line-tool-steps-up-registration-activities-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/off-line-tool-steps-up-registration-activities-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"New off-line tool steps up registration activities in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U88JZuFWYZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BOA VISTA, BRAZIL: Hunger and fear drove around 700 Warao people to flee Venezuela and seek protection in the Pintolandia shelter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U88JZuFWYZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new video released<\/a> by UNHCR\u00a0presents a new tool of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/primes.html\">PRIMES ecosystem<\/a>, the Rapid Application or RApp, designed to improve the registration process by allowing for the intake of data off-line.<\/p>\n<p>For UNHCR and all humanitarian actors, the quality of protection, assistance and solutions programmes are highly dependent on the accuracy with which persons of concern are identified and their identity data managed.<\/p>\n<p>The main way to achieve these goals is through the registration process.\u00a0The UN Refugee Agency is now taking advantage of new advances in information technology to modernize its registration systems and is rolling-out RApp, a feature particularly crucial during emergency situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith RApp, we can work off-line, insuring we are reaching our population everywhere, despite of connectivity issues, and we can work much faster\u201d describes Diego Nardi, Registration Associate for UNHCR.<\/p>\n<p>The collected data are then be uploaded into proGres v4, UNHCR central population registry and\u00a0linked\u00a0to the other tools of PRIMES, such as biometrics and the various case management modules.<\/p>\n<p>RApp is currently tested in 23 countries and a version for mobile phone is being designed to further enhance UNHCR mobility and reach.<\/p>\n<p><em>To find out more about UNHCR\u2019s work in responding to the Venezuela situation,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/venezuela-emergency.html\"><em>click here<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pintolandia Shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil, UNHCR is testing RApp a new tool to improve the registration process and provide a better protection and assistance to refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":1725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<p>[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U88JZuFWYZQ&feature=youtu.be[\/embed]<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>For UNHCR and all humanitarian actors, the integrity, efficiency and effectiveness of protection, assistance and solutions programmes are highly dependent on the accuracy with which persons of concern are identified and their identity data managed. The main way to achieve these goals is through the registration process.<\/p><p>The UN Refugee Agency is taking advantage of new advances in information technology to modernize its registration systems and is currently rolling-out RApp, a new tool that allows for the intake of data off-line, a feature particularly crucial during emergency situations.\u00a0The collected data can then be uploaded into proGres v4, UNHCR central population registry and\u00a0linked\u00a0to the various other tools of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/primes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PRIMES<\/a> eco system, such as biometrics and the various case management modules.\u00a0<\/p><p>This tool is currently being tested in 23 countries and a version for mobile phone is being designed to enhance UNHCR mobility and reach.\u00a0Thanks to\u00a0RApp, UNHCR is improving its registration process to provide a better protection and assistance to refugees.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}