Hub Annual Work Plan IY3

The Hub captures, documents, and shares FEWS NET analytical products, datasets, methodologies, and learning through three technical workstreams: the Data Management Platform (DMP), the Website Platform, and the Knowledge and Learning (K&L) workstream. The Data Management Platform workstream services consist of three major technical activities related to supporting the system architecture, the content in that system, and the development of data-related strategic options for FEWS NET. The Hub will manage, maintain, and improve the DMP System and Content, and continue to ensure platform compliance by expanding use of KoboToolbox for archiving existing primary data and collecting primary data for both internal and external stakeholders. The Hub will also automate data ingestion from additional data sources via external Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API), add data domains to the FEWS NET Data Warehouse (FDW), and deploy interactive, web-based visualizations as part of the FEWS NET website. The Hub is introducing the new Technology Advice and Strategic Support activity to provide guidance on best practices and emerging trends in technology, particularly those related to software development and data management, processing, and analysis. In parallel, the Hub will work closely with FEWS NET implementing partners to develop the processes and documentation required for a growing number of users to access and add DMP content. By the end of IY3, FEWS NET's DMP should be both more functional and user-friendly as well as offer a wider selection of data to a larger community of users. The Web Platform workstream is responsible for managing, maintaining, and improving the FEWS NET Project's official web platform. The Hub will continue to support content creators across the Project, lending its website management expertise through regular maintenance, compliance, and performance functions, responding as required to implementing partner requests and system hiccups. The Hub will also work closely with FEWS NET implementing partners to develop the processes and documentation required for a growing number of users to access and add web platform content. The Knowledge and Learning workstream is responsible for supporting collaboration across implementing partners and increasing the global food security community's access to FEWS NET's vast knowledge and data products. The Hub will deploy a learning management system to ensure FEWS NET's knowledge products and training materials are widely accessible, work with USAID and implementing partners to implement the FEWS NET Outreach Strategy, and continue to modernize communications platforms, products, and practices, thereby improving public access to project data and knowledge products. The Hub management team, under the direction of the Project Director, will set the course for, drive, and report on Hub activities. Specific initiatives for IY3 will include supporting USAID's efforts for strengthening managerial and technical collaboration among the greater FEWS team, producing a Theory of Change for the Hub consistent with FEWS NET's strategic framework, and designing and implementing a Hub-specific performance management system. The Hub will also work closely with FEWS NET implementing partners to develop the processes and documentation required for a growing number of users to access and add Hub content. The Hub's work plan consists of two portions: the main text describes anticipated IY3 tasks grouped by workstream, activity, and sub-activity, and the annex shows the activity titles in tabular form. The work plan was developed based on the Annual Plans for Revision for each of the Hub's three technical workstreams, input from FEWS NET implementing partners during the 2022 Joint Annual Work Planning (JAWP) exercise, and feedback from the Hub's Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).