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Glossary
17 terms defined from the charter, the standards and the network's methods, each with its source.
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Glossary
17 terms defined from the charter, the standards and the network's methods, each with its source.
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Charter
6 termsLocal cooperation units in a city, municipality, campus, professional network or community cluster. This is where individuals take part. Chartered by a Chapter. Strictly non-partisan.
Charter, Charter Part VII, 7.1Recognised chapters serving a Region or a Diaspora District. Chartered by the Council after integrity review, ratified by the General Assembly.
Charter, Charter Part VII, 7.1Credentialed delegations to the General Assembly, from at least four groups: civil society, academia and professions, private sector and labour, and women and youth. Vote in the General Assembly. No party, faction or armed actor may hold more than a set share of seats.
Charter, Charter Part VII, 7.1Credentialed organisations admitted under the charter. Take part under conflict disclosure.
Charter, Charter Part VII, 7.1Participants without voting rights. No vote unless the charter grants it.
Charter, Charter Part VII, 7.1The only form of support the networks accept. No donations in any form.
Network policyStates
2 termsA Community Cell, Chapter or programme that is being formed and is not yet chartered or recognised. Only the charter's organs grant recognition.
CharterA page, guide, dossier or service that is planned and not yet written or reviewed. Its page states what is still missing.
Network methodLabels
3 termsA figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.
Network methodA figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.
Network methodA figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
Network methodMethod
2 termsWhat a figure counts: a stock (people at one date), a flow (movement over a period), remittances (money), a proxy (a country of origin standing in for a community). Figures of different measures are never added.
Network methodA measure that stands in for the community because statistics do not count it directly, for example a country of origin. A proxy is named as a proxy.
Network methodStandards
4 termsThe United Nations Statistics Division's standard country and area codes for statistical use; the networks list countries and areas by it.
UN Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes (M49)The ISO standard for codes of country subdivisions; first-level units carry their ISO 3166-2 code, read from the iso-codes package with its version and check date.
ISO 3166-2OCHA's Common Operational Datasets for administrative boundaries; the networks' first source for subdivisions where it exists.
OCHA Humanitarian Data ExchangeA cell of Uber's open hexagonal hierarchical geospatial index; the networks aggregate pages, bodies and events per cell, never people.
H3 (Apache 2.0)Key
labels and checks- verifiedA figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.
- secondaryA figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.
- to verifyA figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
- unknownNo source yet. We show unknown, not a guess.
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