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UNHCR

CC BY 4.0

The Refugee Population Statistics Database terms also cover third-party data and prohibit implying UNHCR endorsement.

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UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database

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World Bank

CC BY 4.0

Sanad uses open World Development Indicators series; other catalog datasets can carry different terms.

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World Bank, World Development Indicators

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Food and Agriculture Organization — FAOSTAT

CC BY 4.0

FAO’s current statistical-database terms specify CC BY 4.0 unless dataset metadata says otherwise, prescribe a citation format, and prohibit implying endorsement.

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FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT. Accessed 11 July 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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NASA POWER

NASA open data and citation guidance

POWER asks publications to include the service, version, and access date, and requests notification of publications or redistribution.

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The data was obtained from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division.

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OpenStreetMap

Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0

Attribution and an ODbL notice are required; altered or derived databases carry the share-alike condition.

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© OpenStreetMap contributors

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World Food Programme — food prices via HDX

CC BY-IGO 3.0

The Syria food-price dataset is distributed through HDX under this license; Sanad’s connector verifies the license identifier at every sync and stops if it changes.

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World Food Programme, via the Humanitarian Data Exchange

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International Organization for Migration — Displacement Tracking Matrix

CC BY 4.0

The Syria displacement dataset is distributed through HDX under this license; Sanad’s connector verifies the license identifier at every sync and stops if it changes.

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International Organization for Migration, Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)

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UN OCHA — Financial Tracking Service

OCHA FTS public API terms (no explicit reuse license stated)

The FTS API is public, but the source metadata records no explicit reuse license; Sanad documents that limitation rather than assuming an open license.

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UN OCHA Financial Tracking Service (FTS)

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