electricsheepafrica/africa-hrp-projects-lso

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pretty_name: "Lesotho: Response Plan projects"
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# Lesotho: Response Plan projects

**Publisher:** OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/hrp-projects-lso) · **License:** `cc-by-igo` · **Updated:** 2026-03-17

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## Abstract

Projects proposed, in progress, or completed as part of the annual Lesotho Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) or other Humanitarian Programme Cycle plans. The original data is available on https://hpc.tools

**Important:** some projects in Lesotho might be missing, and others might not apply specifically to Lesotho. See _Caveats_ under the _Additional information_ tab.

Each row in this dataset represents time-series observations. Temporal coverage is indicated by the `startdate`, `enddate` column(s). Geographic scope: **LSO**.

*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Humanitarian and development data |
| **Unit of observation** | Time-series observations |
| **Rows (total)** | 14 |
| **Columns** | 13 (1 numeric, 10 categorical, 2 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 11 rows |
| **Test split** | 2 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | LSO |
| **Publisher** | OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) |
| **HDX last updated** | 2026-03-17 |

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## Variables

**Geographic** — `locations` (LSO, #country+code).

**Temporal** — `startdate`, `enddate`.

**Identifier / Metadata** — `name` (Food Security, Health, Protection), `versioncode` (#activity+code+v_hpc, FLSO1920-EDU-165928-1, FLSO1920-FSC-165918-1), `response_plan_code` (FLSO1920, #response+plan+code), `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-07).

**Other** — `currentrequestedfunds` (range 30000.0–12000000.0), `objective` (Food Security, Health, Protection), `globalclusters` (Food Security, Health, Protection), `organizations` (United Nations Children's Fund, #org+prog+name, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), `plans` (Lesotho Flash Appeal 2019-2020, #response+plan+name).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-hrp-projects-lso")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()
```

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## Schema

| Column | Type | Null % | Range / Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | object | 0.0% | Food Security, Health, Protection |
| `versioncode` | object | 0.0% | #activity+code+v_hpc, FLSO1920-EDU-165928-1, FLSO1920-FSC-165918-1 |
| `currentrequestedfunds` | float64 | 7.1% | 30000.0 – 12000000.0 (mean 2595769.2308) |
| `objective` | object | 0.0% | Food Security, Health, Protection |
| `startdate` | datetime64[ns] | 7.1% | |
| `enddate` | datetime64[ns] | 7.1% | |
| `globalclusters` | object | 0.0% | Food Security, Health, Protection |
| `locations` | object | 0.0% | LSO, #country+code |
| `organizations` | object | 0.0% | United Nations Children's Fund, #org+prog+name, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| `plans` | object | 0.0% | Lesotho Flash Appeal 2019-2020, #response+plan+name |
| `response_plan_code` | object | 0.0% | FLSO1920, #response+plan+code |
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-07 |

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## Numeric Summary

| Column | Min | Max | Mean | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `currentrequestedfunds` | 30000.0 | 12000000.0 | 2595769.2308 | 505000.0 |

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## Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (`N/A`, `null`, `none`, `-`, `unknown`, `no data`, `#N/A`) were unified to `NaN`. 1 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: `partners`. 3 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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## Limitations

- Data originates from OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) and has not been independently validated by ESA.
- Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
- Refer to the [original HDX dataset page](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/hrp-projects-lso) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_hrp_projects_lso,
title = {Lesotho: Response Plan projects},
author = {OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/hrp-projects-lso},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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*[Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) — Africa's ML dataset infrastructure. Lagos, Nigeria.*