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title: "ITPC - Data Protection Study | Relief Applications"
description: "The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition handles sensitive information from partners and community members, and needed to comply with the GDPR and…"
url: https://reliefapplications.org/projects/iptc-data-protection-study/
lang: en
updated: 2026-11-11
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# ITPC - Data Protection Study

The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition handles sensitive information from partners and community members, and needed to comply with the GDPR and POPIA. We prepared a Data Protection Guide with risk assessments, mitigation plans, data breach responses and improved password policies, and trained staff across its network to process data safely and prevent security issues.

- **Client**: ITPC
- **When**: May–Nov 2021
- **Team**: 3 people
- **Services**: [Training](https://reliefapplications.org/services/training-and-capacity/), [Privacy](https://reliefapplications.org/services/privacy-cybersecurity/)
- **Industry**: Human Rights
- **Solutions**: DP4G
- **SDGs**: 3. Good health and well-being, 10. Reduced inequalities
- **Client website**: [itpcglobal.org](https://itpcglobal.org/)

The client

International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) was created to enable people in need to access optimal HIV Treatment, expanding its work recently to also advocate for access to appropriate medicines and quality healthcare for people with TB, Hepatitis and other chronic and life-threatening conditions (hypertension, diabetes).

The project

The organization manages sensitive information from diverse partners and community members. In the light of the kind of data that ITPC processes, it has to pay special attention to its data security policy.

ITPC sought to create a new Data Security and Protection Policy to be compliant with the most updated national and European legislations, therefore they asked Relief Applications to elaborate a Data Protection Guide to help ITPC comply with Data Protection standards set by the GDPR and POPIA.

## The challenge

- Need of theoretical explanations and practical tools for data protection
- Need of trainings addressed to the staff of the whole network

## What we did

- Elaboration of a guide with risk assessments, mitigation plans, data breach responses and improved password policies
- Trainings on how safely process data and prevent data security issues

> They were responsive, competent and flexible. These are key attributes for ITPC given our global nature and varying applicable laws leading to quite complex situations that require digital security solutions. They even trained our staff and fielded numerous program, IT and basic daily digital security questions.
>
> Solange Baptiste, Executive Director

![Data Protection Study, ITPC: screen 1](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p060/01.webp)

![Data Protection Study, ITPC: screen 2](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p060/02.webp)

![Data Protection Study, ITPC: screen 3](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p060/03.webp)

- [ITPC Website](https://itpcglobal.org)

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