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Our 
Story

Get to Know Us

HERA was established in 2020 as a french non profit organization to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our teams started the Covid-19 Data Project to support governments, non governmental organizations and research institutes evaluate, anticipate and respond to the spread of Coronavirus on the African continent.

March 2020
HERA's first project

As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads in Africa, the Covid-19 Data Project starts. Our teams build a solid methodology and look for reliable sources to update our future datasets.

April 2020
Partnership with OCHA

Our teams are looking for a place to share the datasets. We contact UNOCHA to offer our support. Two weeks later, our datasets can be found on Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).​

May 2020
The need for disaggregated data

We focus our work on finding disaggregated data, creating a subnational database of Covid-19 in West Africa. The dataset on Nigeria becomes the most downloaded file on our page.

2022-2023
Developing tools to support NGOs

Between 2022 and 2023, HERA starts developing tools to support NGOs in their development (carbon footprint tool, monitoring and evaluation...).

April 2024
New services

In 2024, HERA extends its support to organizations, enhancing their resilience to impending crises including security, climate, and epidemics. With a renewed emphasis on strategic development, HERA empowers NGOs to navigate these challenges adeptly, reaffirming its commitment to global resilience.

August 2024
Monkeypox monitoring

In August 2024, HERA began providing databases on the Monkeypox epidemic, focusing on the countries of Central Africa, the source of the infection.

Challenges of today and tomorrow

Overall, HERA believes that the humanitarian ecosystem faces more and more challenges, related to security, accessibility, climate change and the spread of epidemics. NGOs and local communities face multiple challenges that prevent humanitarian assistance from being efficient, rapid and appropriate.

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  • During emergencies, well-functioning and efficient coordination is needed between all humanitarian actors.

  • Humanitarian aid is fragilized by new threats which are targeting communities and aid workers leading to the disengagement of humanitarian actors.

  • Protracted crises are becoming more and more important, conflicts last longer and communities are being impacted in the long-term.

  • Forgotten crises and communities remain, we need to identify the most vulnerable populations, intervene in specific contexts and encourage local authorities to take the lead. 

  • Climate change poses considerable challenges in areas of humanitarian intervention, which can have an impact on operations, and humanitarian operations, in line with the Do No Harm approach, must be rethought to reduce their impact on a global scale and on local ecosystems and beneficiaries.

Our values

Transparency

We favor transparency in our interventions with every stakeholder we encounter. We believe that this will help individuals and partners gain trust in our actions and will open the humanitarian system to the public. We want to make our actions as transparent as possible while giving the opportunity for everyone to be fully informed of our actions.

Inclusion

We strongly believe that communities are the ones that should elaborate on the humanitarian programs which they are concerned with. We want to build a more inclusive and cohesive humanitarian system, which will give local actors the opportunity to become resilient through crises.

Agility

We encourage the development of initiatives in the digital and technological world, as long as it is supporting humanitarian action. We focus our work on providing reliable data about humanitarian crises to support NGOs in their response. We see agility as an opportunity to act as a flexible actor and make a change in that current frigid humanitarian system.

Would you like to help us? 

Donate for our projects in Africa or Contact Us to see what we can do together ! 

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