Health Resources Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS)

The Global Health Cluster developed a tool (HeRAMS) to be used as soon as possible and throughout the duration of a crisis for the collection, collation and analysis of health sector information for each facility, mobile clinic or site with community-based interventions in order to monitor the availability of resources.

These are: key characteristics of the points of delivery (urban/rural area, IDP/refugee camp) and of the facilities (functioning/non functioning, temporary/permanent, active health partner(s), management, other), number of staff (by type) and availability of services as per the list of 62 services (see reverse).

The HeRAMS is available on:
http://www.iawg.net/resources/Graph_RAMS_5aug09.pdf

The Global Health Cluster, under the leadership of the World Health Organization, is made up of more than 30 international humanitarian health organizations that have been working together over the past two years to build partnerships and mutual understanding and to develop common approaches to humanitarian health action.

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