How an AI agentic AI system is optimizing scarce resources at NGO Mercy Corps
The humanitarian NGO sector is experiencing two conflicting challenges.
Crises around the world due to issues, such as climate shocks, conflict, and economic crunches, are becoming more difficult, more frequent, and are lasting longer. They are also increasingly being layered one on top of the other in the same locations.
At the same time, accessing the necessary resources to respond effectively to such events is becoming increasingly problematic. Costs are rising across the board while funding across the sector comes under rising amounts of pressure.
This situation leaves non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as Mercy Corps, facing hard choices about how best to direct the funds available to them. The NGO plans to rebrand as Prosper Global from September.
After experiencing labor capacity constraints last year resulting partially from headcount losses, the organization identified a bottleneck in how its research analysts manually gather and condense information. This is an important but...
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