On June 24, powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela’s coast, collapsing buildings across Caracas and the surrounding region and forcing families from their homes. Humanitarian organizations are now mobilizing a large-scale relief effort under enormous pressure. We know digital tools can streamline and support relief efforts and CommCare can help teams organize their earthquake response.
In a fast-moving emergency, the best tool is usually the one your team already has in place. Adding new software in the middle of an urgent response introduces new complexity, and switching tools rarely makes sense when something is already working.
But if your team needs tools it doesn’t have, or is outgrowing paper and spreadsheets, CommCare can be up and running quickly. CommCare, Dimagi’s data collection and program delivery platform, is built for exactly these conditions. It works entirely offline, can be configured in days rather than months, and is used by humanitarian and frontline teams in more than 130 countries to reach people in the hardest places.
That’s why we’re offering organizations responding to the Venezuela earthquakes 12 months of free access to an Advanced CommCare subscription. This removes procurement delays and budget constraints, so teams can get the tools they need now and keep them through recovery.
How CommCare can help earthquake response
CommCare is a flexible toolkit rather than a single fixed app, so teams can build what their response demands. Common uses in a disaster like this include:
- Rapid needs and damage assessments: collect data in the field, even with no connectivity, so coordinators get a real-time picture of where the needs are greatest.
- Registering affected people and households: keep a single, de-duplicated record of who has been reached, so no one falls through the cracks and services aren’t doubled up.
- Cash and voucher assistance: verify eligibility, track distributions, and deliver cash-based support faster and more accountably.
- Relief distribution and shelter tracking: manage the flow of supplies and monitor displacement and shelter occupancy as the situation changes.
- Health services and referrals: support care for the injured, maintain continuity for maternal and child health, and connect people to follow-up services and psychosocial support.
Because CommCare is designed for long-term case management, it can both support the immediate emergency as well as the many months of recovery that follow.
Requesting access
This offer is exclusively for organizations responding to active earthquake relief and recovery operations in Venezuela. Dimagi reserves the right to review project activity and rescind access if a project space is used for unrelated programs or use cases.
If your team is responding to the earthquakes and a CommCare subscription would be valuable, request access here.
