Core

Core is a set of components that attempt to solve the problem of

• data collection
• beneficiary identity
• case management
• reporting

for the humanitarian sector.

Humanitarian organizations offer services to beneficiaries, usually in multiple countries. These services might be the

• delivery of goods
• delivery of services, such as education, legal help, medical help, ...

Humanitarian organizations need to collect data about the recipients of those services to

• Offer services to those beneficiaries
• Track the status of the services
• Evaluate the admissibility of a beneficiary to these services
• Accountability to the donors

Also, humanitarian organizations often need to collect other types of data to

• Evaluate where aid efforts should be focused
• Evaluate the status of a population

Humanitarian organizations usually use something like ODK or KOBO to perform this task. While ODK/Kobo and such tools perform well for offline data collection, The Norwegian Refugee Council found some shortcomings with these tools such as

• Lacks the concept of identity or cases
• Lacks OIDC/OAuth features
• Lack of centralized identity management
• Lack of centralized permission management
• Lack of case management features
• Beneficiaries are not allowed to log in

Applications

Name	Description
core-frontend	Frontend application that allows managing forms and records
core-login-frontend	Server Application that allows login and identity provider federation
core-forms-api	API Server for managing forms and records
core-authnz-api	API Server for managing OAuth clients, organizations and identity federation
core-authnz-frontend	Frontend application to manage authorization/authentication
core-authnz-bouncer	Application that verifies, authenticates and authorizes requests

Dependencies

Name	Description
ory/hydra	OIDC Wrapper for the login-frontend. Acts as the Identity Provider for all apps
spicedb	Stores authorization entries and evaluates if actions are authorized or not