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id: "coronavirus-smarter-crowdsourcing:strategies/Build-coalitions-with-“trust-brokers”-(e.g.-NG"
type: "GovLab policy strategy"
title: "Build coalitions with “trust brokers” (e.g. NGOs,Civil Society Organizations,and community leaders) and…"
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summary: "Build coalitions with “trust brokers” (e.g. NGOs,Civil Society Organizations,and community leaders) and affected populations to co-design data collection,analysis and use processes"
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# Build coalitions with “trust brokers” (e.g. NGOs,Civil Society Organizations,and community leaders) and…

Build coalitions with “trust brokers” (e.g. NGOs,Civil Society Organizations,and community leaders) and affected populations to co-design data collection,analysis and use processes

- Timeframe: 1-3 Months (immediate)
- Audience: Civil Society, Vulnerable Populations, Organized Civil Society, Nonprofits
- Type: Partnerships, Vulnerable Populations
- Recommendation: [Improve Data Management](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/recommendations/improve-data-management)
- Part of: [Smarter Crowdsourcing in the Age of Coronavirus](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/)

## Actions governments should take

1. Identify the target stakeholders. Stakeholders can be specific ages, demographics, geographic communities, language groups, etc.
2. Define the groups as specifically as possible (geographically, racially/ethnically, age breakdown, sex/gender, language groups, etc.).
3. Work with other levels of government, including sub-national, to coordinate with local actors.
4. Create a stakeholder group that includes individuals from a variety of disciplines and relevant sectors to review data management processes. These groups should include, but not be limited to, hospitals, clinicians, statisticians, social service providers, frontline-health workers, academic researchers, and community based organizations.
5. Have these stakeholders be amplifiers for helping make their constituencies more “seen” and visible to government programs through better data.
6. Ask populations for their permission to use data.

## Examples from around the world

1. [Facing the insufficiency of national ethnically disaggregated data collection protocols, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil has leveraged its network of smaller civil society organizations to collect better quality data from community sources.](https://emergenciaindigena.apiboficial.org/en/dados-covid-19-novo/)