From a Data Pilot to Covid response with Microsoft Excel
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What can a spreadsheet do? Or, better yet, what can 100s of people do with improved spreadsheet skills? From the moment IFRC started the Data Literacy program, we heard from people every day that we all need to collectively improve our data skills in the form of spreadsheet basics. Microsoft Excel is the top data tool that Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff use. Time and time again – people asked for brief to extensive training on this essential data tool. We partnered with Microsoft Corporate Social Responsibility for a Microsoft Excel pilot focused on co-hort learning. Then, covid times arrived. Our post-pilot plans had to shift focus to humanitarian response. On that journey, we discovered that initial pilot continues to have an impact across the Red Cross Red Crescent world.